Compilation & design © Copyright 2010 Walter Zajac

Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you?

~ Oscar Hammerstein II, American writer, producer

Being thought of as "a beautiful woman" has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Beauty is essentially meaningless.

~ Halle Berry, American actor

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

~ Alice Walker, American writer

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

~ George Washington Carver, American scientist, writer

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy...

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

~ Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet, philosopher

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~ Boethius, ancient Roman philosopher

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

~ Herman Hesse, German writer, philosopher

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. ~ Mae West, American actor

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

~ Josephine Baker, American actor

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

~ Judy Garland, American singer, actor

My brother was an only child. ~ Mark Twain, American writer, philospher

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

~ Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet & philosopher

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

~ Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, philosopher