Any time not spent on love is wasted. -Torquato Tasso

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. -D.H. Lawrence

You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty. -Kevin Bacon, on the secret to a long, happy marriage

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. -Richard Bach

Artist's notes: The only thing more beautiful than two lovers is being one of them. -Unknown

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. -Svetlana Alliluyeva

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust

Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies. -Ninon de Lenclos

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. -Ninon de Lenclos

The resistance of a woman is not always proof of her virtue but more frequently of her experience. -Ninon de Lenclos

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. -Ninon de Lenclos

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and polity are as allowable in the one as in the other. -Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. -Carl Jung