Eight faces of love

Colleagues and scholars from coast to coast, across Bass Strait and all the ships at sea.

A lovely way to end the week.

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.” Oscar Wilde.

Stars, clearly with stars in their eyes: for each other. 

While each of them (being human) were flawed, creating difficulties in the relationships, their love endured. 

These pictures tell us a thousand stories of eight faces of love.

"I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him." Katharine Hepburn

“My every dream and hope, and far beyond, were to be realised. I couldn’t have wished for a man as incredibly good as this man was. And even so I didn’t realise every quality of Bogie’s on that day. He was to surprise and delight me continually in the ensuing years” Lauren Bacall.

"Why go out for hamburger, when you have steak at home?" Paul Newman.

“I can be alone without Yoko, but I just have no wish to be. There’s no reason on earth why I should be alone without Yoko. There’s nothing more important than our relationship, nothing. And we dig being together all the time. Both of us could survive apart but what for? I’m not going to sacrifice love, real love for any whore or any friend or any business, because in the end you’re alone at night and neither of us want to be. And you can’t fill a bed with groupies. It doesn’t work. I don’t want to be a swinger. I’ve been through it all and nothing works better than to have someone you love hold you.” John Lennon.