Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
~ Louise Erdrich.
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
~ Euripides.
Love makes the time pass.
Time makes love pass.
~ French proverb.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
~ Erich Fromm.