LOVE <3

"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. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine


Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-Franklin P. Jones


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 anything, you risk even more.
-Erica Jong,1942, American Author


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 anything, you risk even more.
-Erica Jong,1942, American Author


Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.
-Curtis Judalet



Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
-Carl Jung,1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist


Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
-Alphonse Karr


How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
-Thomas p Kempis,1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer


Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
-Thomas p Kempis,1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer


Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
-Thomas p Kempis,1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer


Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
-Thomas p Kempis,1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer