in the loving...

"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done".

-Mother Teresa

rough...

"The course of true love never did run smooth".

-William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream (I, i, 134)

cannot be seen or touched...

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart".

-Helen Keller

word is...

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love".

-Sophocles

caution...

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness".

-Bertrand Russell

it's sweet...

"Love's very pain is sweet".

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

essential to your own...

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own".

-Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land

deeply in love...

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived".

-William Parrish from the movie, Meet Joe Black (1998)

always being hurt...

"Love is good in feeling, even if you are always being hurt. It is better to be hurt by love than not loving at all".

- ??

a habit...

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit".

-Peter Ustinov (b. 1921), British actor, writer, director. Christian Science Monitor (Boston, 9 Dec. 1958).

thwarted...

"Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast".

- Mark Twain

same direction...

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction".

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

if i...

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

...of you

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

-Hermann Hesse

what i am...

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

more love...

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love".

-Mother Teresa

it really is worth fighting for...

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more".

-Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977).

amoris vulnus...

"Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit."
Translation: The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them".

-Syrus Publilius

Is it true...

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

- David Frost

An intelligent fool

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- A. E.