Love…
…reveals and illustrates me truly as I truly am. There is no exhibition greater that can be shown of me than who and what I allow into my heart. To love is to be stripped bare to one’s most fundamental nature for anyone to see.
Spanish philosopher and essayist Ortega Y. Gasset
In their choice
of lovers,
both male
and female
reveal their
true nature.
The type of
human being
we prefer
reveals the
contours of
our heart.
Love…
…almost never announces its coming in advance. Instead it arrives like being unexpectedly side-swiped in a sudden collision with nothing to show for it’s impact on the outside; only inside is one changed.
English playwright and novelist Charles Langbridge Morgan
There is
no surprise
more magical
than the
surprise
of being
loved.
It is God’s
finger on
man’s
shoulder.
Love…
…is at times not having a clue where things are going or even precisely what emotions are being felt. When one can let go the desire for certainty, true love has the best chance to arrive, grow and last.
French literary Critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
For true love
is inexhaustible;
the more
you give,
the more
you have.
And if you go to draw
at the true fountainhead,
the more water you draw,
the more abundant
is its flow.
Love…
…is felt the most profoundly by those who have known the least of it: those starved for love. Like a few morsels can bring life to one starving, just a little love can save a dying heart.
American novelist and screenwriter Nicholas Sparks
Someday
you’ll
find
someone
special
again.
People who’ve
been in love
once usually do.
It’s in their nature.
Love…
…is a bewildering necessity; a sweet dis-ease that is high infectious. When the illness strikes, many victims are glad to be sick and happily bear the affliction life long. Some get cured, but the remedy is the loss of love.
Quote from English author Jacqueline Jill “Jackie” Collins
Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck
and yet not being mortally wounded;
just sick to your stomach,
high one minute, low the next.
Starving hungry but unable to eat;
hot, cold, full of hope and enthusiasm,
with momentary depressions that wipe you out.
It is also not being able to remove the smile
from your face, loving life
with a mad passionate intensity,
and feeling ten years younger.
Love…
…always make more of a person than they were before. Any person is a little kinder and softer when love takes up residence in the heart. It is a welcome visitor, sometimes invited, but always arriving unexpectedly.
American fantasy and romance writer Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Only love of a good woman
will make a man question
every choice, every action.
Only love makes a warrior
hesitate for fear that his lady
will find him cruel.
Only love makes a man
both the best he will ever be,
and the weakest.
Sometimes all in the same moment.
Love…
…can not be predicted, nor can it be made to appear. It is like a phantom one does not see until, with surprise, it is upon you. Love kneels before no one, but bends all who receive her.
From “Meditations” by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Accept
the things
to which fate
binds you,
and love
the people
with whom fate
brings you
together,
but do so
with all your heart.
Love…
…is not a steady stream that is always the same. Rather it is like the wind; at times calm and easy; at others strong and intense. Love can be peaceful or a raging storm. Sooner or later we all know it as both.
From “Brushstrokes of a Gadfly” by Elizabeth Ann Bucchianeri
Love,
like everything else in life,
should be a discovery,
an adventure,
and like most adventures,
you don’t know
you’re having one until
you’re right
in the middle of it.
Love…
…is a confounding puzzle; a miraculous riddle; an eternal enigma. Yet to thrive the soul must have it. Love: so necessary, so emotionally dangerous and so worth the risk.
From “I Ching”, the Chinese “Book of Changes”
When
two people
are at one
in their
inmost hearts,
they shatter even
the strength
of iron
or of bronze.
Love…
…when questioned gives no answers; when doubted gives no clues. Love does not speak for itself yet has meaning clearly heard without a single word. It is the inexplicable that is fact.
From “Lucky” by English novelist Jackie Collins
Love does not appear
with any warning signs.
You fall into it as if pushed
from a high diving board.
No time to think about
what’s happening. It’s inevitable.
An event you can’t control.
A crazy, heart-stopping,
roller-coaster ride
that just has to take its course.
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