Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. Comte de Bussy-Rabutin 1618-1693
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Kahlil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.And if they don't, they never were. Kahlil Gibran
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. William Faulkner