You may wish to be loving-- you may even try with all your might--but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments. -John Gray, Men, Women and Relationships

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows- it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes too late. -Jean Giraudoux

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction. -Mahatma Gandhi

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. -Benjamin Disraeli

Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate. -Byron

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. -William Blake

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. -James Dickey

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person. -Nathaniel Branden

Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression. -Leo Buscaglia, Love

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame. -Samuel Coleridge

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. -Christian Nevell Bovee