"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Some people have it, they have roots that have grown towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom has fallen from their branches they find that they are one tree and not two.
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
--St. Augustine
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly"
Sam Keen
"There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved"
George Sand
1804-1876, French Novelist
”The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
Helen Keller
