"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." Anonymous
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." Anonymous
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." Anonymous
"Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!" Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali
"Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply." Sylvia Ashton-Warner
"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love." Pearl Bailey
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." James Baldwin
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." James Baldwin
"The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together—the lover with the loved, the one who hates with the hated. Both passions are tested by separation. " John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, ch. 2, Pantheon (1984)
