"The difficult part of love
Is being selfish enough,
Is having the blind persistence
To upset an existence
Just for your own sake. "

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.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin6.

"Love is the beauty of the soul."
--St. Augustine

"Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks..."
--John Dunne

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

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
--Mignon McLaughlin

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
--George Sand

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
--Alexander Smith

"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense."
--Vincent van Gogh

"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
--Victor Hugo

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