might never see him again.

"True love is when you have to watch a friend leave, with the knowledge that you might never see him again. But you know he'll be in your mind and heart forever..."

never.

"The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it".
- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Letter, 2 June 1912 (published in The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, vol. 1, ed. by James T. Boulton, 1979). Lawrence wrote the letter after eloping to Germany with Frieda von Richthofen, wife of his old university professor, whom he later married.

first and last.

"Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man. "

first kiss.

"The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender."
-Emil Ludwig

barrier

"True love is rare, so when you find it don't let it go just because of a barrier you can't cross"
- Ray H Wall

friendship on fire

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
-Bruce Lee

diff. between love and friendship

"There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality."
-Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon

no perfect ending.

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
-Gilda Radner

the success of love

" 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

topsy turvy.

"Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy."
-Marguerite De Valois

fate.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
-Marcus Aurelius

flash light.

"Love is a light that shines from heart to heart."
-John Denver

sustained by action.

"But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day."
-Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

greatest happiness of life.

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo

felt with the heart.

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

three essentials.

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for."
- Joseph Addison

weird.

"When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love."
-Robert Fulghum

by my side.

"I never knew dawn could break With peace so deep and hope so wide, Till that first morning when I awoke, And you lay sleeping by my side."
-Robert Sexton

patient, kind.

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres".
-1 Corinthians 13:4-7

qualities.

"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."
-Jacques Jacques Maritain

instantly.

"Love is when you look into someone's eyes and go all the way inside, to their soul and you both know... instantly."
-Angela Chase, "My So Called Life"

caution.

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

love until it hurts.

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

just love.

"Love cant always be perfect. Love is just love."
- Massimo, The Wedding Planner

let love find you.

"Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall."
-anon.

put it in the water.

"I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other."
-Jamie Foxx, Golden Globes 2005

searching.

All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners & change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak & hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us".
-Narrator in The Wonder Years (1988)

understood.

"Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world."
-Rev Ed Hird

common fiber of life.

"I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

eyes.

"You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world."
-David Levesque

truth and action

let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action
- 1 john 3:18

incompleteness in absence.

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
- Goncourt

simple as that.

I love you. It's not a weight you must carry around. I love you. It's not a box that holds you in. I love you. It's not a standard you have to bear. I love you. It's not a sacrifice I make. I love you. It's not a pedestal you are frozen upon. I love you. It's not an expectation of perfection. I love you. It's not my life's whole purpose (or yours). I love you. It's not to make you change. I love you. It's not even to make you love me. I love you. It's as pure and simple as that.
-Anonymous

won't go away.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other."
-Louise Erdrich

cure.

"We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love."
-Mother Teresa

self discovery.

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition"
-Alexander Smith

measurement.

"True love is not measured in hugs and kisses, but in struggles and fears, and those who can work though those...they possess true love."
-Adam Murphy

giving the power.

"Loving someone is giving them the power to hurt you, but trusting them not to"
-Anonymous

spark.

"The power of a glance... It is in this way that love begins, and in this way only... Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark."
-Victor Hugo

same direction.

"To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery