The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned, -William Somerset Maugham I have

found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love, -Mother Teresa "Why the love which is so soft of aspect, put in to the test, has to be so tyrannical and so rough?" -William Shakespeare A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave, -Mahatma Gandhi I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone, Steven Javan Jones Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -Martin Luther King, Jr He who cannot love must learn to flatter. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love, -Leo Tolstoy Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within, --James A. Baldwin Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, --Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office, --Shirley MacLaine Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place, --Zora Neale Hurston Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing, --Anais Nin Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion, --Javan Maybe part of loving is learning to let go, The Wonder Years Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference, Libbie Fudium Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense, Mark Overby

Love does not begin and end the wau we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up, James A. Baldwin You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not glee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else, Herman Hesse Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart, Washington Irving I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every part of my body is broken too, Chloe Woodward Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love, Song of Solomon 2:5 Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars' fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short while or a longer while, Anna Magnani Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop, H. L. Mencken It was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul, Judy Garland Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference, Libbie Fudium Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly, Robert Frost We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to love and to love as we are to die, Ronald David Laing A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another, Paul Bourget What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven, Victor Hugo Every heart has a pain. Only the way of expressing it is different. Fools hide it in eyes, while the brilliant hide it in their smile, Unknown There is no guise that can for long conceal love where is exists or simulate it where is does not, Francois De La Rochefoucauld When I saw you I was afraid to meet you. When I met you I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you I as afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you, Unknown If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I, Michael de Montaingne 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 Staei