"The Truth About Love..."

Please do not think for a second, as some people do, that Love is primarily an affair of the emotions. It is not: it never ought to be. It is an affair of the will: it is an act of choice.

- ROBERT HUGH BENSON

"The Truth About Love..."

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

- MAYA ANGELOU

A Thought To Ponder..."

Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear,

A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh,

The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment,

What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love!

For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind,

The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords,

The story without an end that angels throng to hear,

The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!

Martin Farquhar Tupper

"The Truth About Love..."

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

- JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"The Truth About Love..."

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

- NEIL GAIMAN

"The Truth About Love..."

Love's never a fair trade.

MARGARET ATWOOD

"The Truth About Love..."

When you love someone

you have to let them go.

It's the only way to keep them.

MACRINA WIEDERKEHR

"A Thought To Ponder..."

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

GASTON BACHELARD

"The Truth About Love..."

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our perplexity when alone.

- JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"The Truth About Love..."

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

- ZORA NEALE HURSTON

"The Truth About Love..."

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

- TIM LEBBON

"The Truth About Love..."

When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. 

- Tom Robbins

"The Truth About Love..."

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

- JAMES BALDWIN

"The Truth About Love..."

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

APHRA BEHN

"The Truth About Love..."

When one falls in love suddenly the whole center changes. Up to that point one has probably referred everything to themself--considered things from their own point. When one falls in love the whole thing is shifted; they becomes a part of the circumference--perhaps even the whole circumference; someone else becomes the center.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

* Changed from the original work; gender pronouns have been neutered.

"The Truth About Love..."

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

VICTOR HUGO

"A Little Sane Advice..."

"The Truth About Love..."

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;

They lift their heavy lids, and look;

And, lo, what one sweet page can teach

They read with joy, then shut the book.

COVENTRY PATMORE

"The Truth About Love..."

The world has little to bestow

Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

"A Thought To Ponder..."

"When we understand that each day isn't one more day, but one less, we'll start giving more value to the things that truly matter."