Matters of the Heart

Ruminations on Love and relationships:

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Theresa

"Men always want to be a woman's first love--women like to be a man's last romance."
Oscar Wilde

"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." Mark Twain


"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao-Tzu


"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve


"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." Katharine Hepburn


"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." Benjamin Disrael



"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything." Anonymous