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

the whole world smiles.

"For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile."
- David Myers

wounds of love.

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

if you have it.

"If you have it, you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
-Sir James M. Barrie

generated by love.

"...You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

irresistible desire.

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
-Robert Frost