"A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'"
--James Thurber

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."
--Erica Jong

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
--Victor Hugo

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you."
--William Arthur Ward

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
--Robert Heinlein

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out."
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
--Reinhold Niebuhr

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world."
--Taylor Hanson

"The measure of our love is to love without measure."
--St. Francis de Sales

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."
--Lao-tse

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
--Aristotle

"Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected."
--Tom Clancy

"My heart is yours to fill or burst or break or bury or wear as jewelery, which ever you prefer."
-- Dashboard Confessional

"Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
--Erich Fromm

"Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye."
--Langston Hughes

"We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away."
--Walker Percy

"Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless."
--Sarah Schambach

"Distance never separates two hearts that really care. For memory spans miles and in seconds we are there. We hear the voice, we see the smile, and deep inside we know that friends remain a part of us wherever we may go. So we can visit any time, no matter when or where, for distance never separates two hearts that really care."
--Emily Matthews

"He thought instead about love, and if you loved someone -- whell you just loved them, you didn't love them just if they did what you wanted, like write you letters. You either loved them or you didn't."
--Cynthia Voigt

"You know yourself. You know your selfishness, your sin. God should not love us either, yet He does. And it is only because of him that we can love each other. There is no human explanation for it."
--Albie, a character in _The Mark_ by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

"When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough."
--Gawyn in Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
--Kahlil Gibran

"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
-- Mark Twain

"everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of what he loved."
-- Kierkegaard.

"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."
--Herman Hesse, off of Ederlyn's aim info.



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