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."
- Louis de Bernieres
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Anna Louise... Click to comment
Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes. Ron Hall. Click to comment
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.
Euripides Click to comment
Without friends, no one would choose to live, though they had all other goods. Aristotle. Click to comment
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... Click to comment
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Kierkegaard. Click to comment
Arrogance leads to failure. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama). Click to comment
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler. Click to comment
There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.
Jesus, Acts 20:35 Click to comment
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. E.E. Cummings. Click to comment
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