"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."

Francis Maitland Balfour

"Love doesn't limit itself to relationships. It is a celebration of life."

Paulo Coelho

"To have a good friend is the purest of all God’s gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others."

Charlie W. Shedd

"we can’t fully appreciate joyful reunions later without tearful separations now. The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life."

Russell M. Nelson

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

Dr. Seuss

"The trouble with the world and the trouble with you and me is that we don't love each other enough. And if we do, we don't bother to show it, or we don't bother to say it. If the world is to know love, it has to be in your heart and in mine. And the Lord can fill our hearts with love if we will just go to Him."

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.”

J. K. Rowling, Dumbledlore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly. “The only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort’s! In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all the suffering, you remain pure of heart, just as pure as you were at the age of eleven, when you stared into a mirror that reflected your heart’s desire, and it showed you only the way to thwart Lord Voldemort, and not immortality or riches. Harry, have you any idea how few wizards could have seen what you saw in that mirror? Voldemort should have known then what he was dealing with, but he did not! . . . he was in such a hurry to mutilate his own soul, he never paused to understand the incomparable power of a soul that is untarnished and whole.”

J. K. Rowling, Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."

Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

Robert Frost