Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.” -Unknown
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
– Captain Corelli’s Mandolin6. “Love is the beauty of the soul.”
—St. Augustine
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” -Saint-Exupery
“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.”
—Ingrid Bergmen
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” -La Rochefoucauld
“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
—Aphra Behn
“True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.” -Alicia Barnhart
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
–Robert Browning
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
—Helen Keller
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
—Mignon McLaughlin
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
—George Sand
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
—Alexander Smith
“The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
—Josiah G. Holland
“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
—Erich Fromm
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
—Sam Keen
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
—Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
—Germaine De Stael
“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”
—Ivan Panin
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
—Elizabeth Browning
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
—Mark Twain
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