1. “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” -George Eliot

2. “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” -Audre Lorde

3. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." -Lucille Ball

4. "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." - Anaïs Nin

5. “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” -J.K. Rowling

6. "I like people too much or not at all." -Sylvia Plath

7. “Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.” –Hannah Arendt

8. "When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home." -Sheryl Sandberg

9. “Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.” – Toni Morrison

10. " Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. –Bell Hooks