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