<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>blockquote background-color</title> <style type="text/css"> blockquote { float: left; width: 400px; margin: 2 2 2 2; padding: 1px; color: #898; background-color: blue; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; border-top: 2px solid #857; border-bottom: 2px solid #589; } blockquote p { margin: 2; padding: 2; text-align: left; line-height: 2px; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover<br> will require that you continually have the subtlety<br> of the very wise, the flexibility of the child,<br> the sensitivity of the artist,<br> the understanding of the philosopher,<br> the acceptance of the saint,<br> the tolerance of the scholar and<br> the fortitude of the certain.<br><br> Leo Buscaglia</p> <blockquote> <p>We perceive when love begins and when it declines<br> by our embarrassment when alone together.<br><br> Jean de la Bruyere</p> </blockquote> <p>Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such<br> a way as to complete and fulfill them,<br> for it alone takes them and joins them<br> by what is deepest in themselves.<br><br> Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</p> <p>Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.<br><br> Margaret Cho.</p> <p>All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame<br> All are but ministers of Love And feed his sacred flame.<br><br> Samuel Taylor Coleridge</p> </body> </html>