"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
Friedrich Nietzsche
IF YOU JUDGE PEOPLE
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
YOUR LAST GAME
"Love is playing every game as if it's your last."
Michael Jordan
POSSESSION
"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
Rabindranath Tagore
I LOVE YOU STRAIGHTFORWARDLY
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
Pablo Neruda
LOVE NEVER DIES A NATURAL DEATH
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
Anais Nin
ANXIETY
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
Anais Nin
LOVE IS...
"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath"
Emily Dickinson
FIRST LOVE
"We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first."
George John Whyte-Melville
THE GIFTS
"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third"
Marge Piercy
DESIRE
"Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly."
Robert Frost
YOU NEED OTHERS
"We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death."
Leo Buscaglia
IT IS BETTER
"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
QUESTIONS OF VALUE
"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love."
Johnny Depp
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY
"You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things."
Jimi Hendrix