"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
~Leo Buscaglia
"Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift."
~Unknown
"Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship - and find out you still care for that person."
~Unknown
"Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back ... don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content is grew in yours."
~Unknown
"There are things you'd love to hear that you would never hear from the person whom you would like to hear them from, but don't be so deaf as not to hear it from the one who says it from his heart."
~Unknown
"Never say goodbye if you still want to try - never give up if you still feel you can go on - never say you don't love a person anymore if you can't let go."
~Unknown
"Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Hope you find the one that makes you smile."
~Unknown
"A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; a timely word may level stress; a loving word may heal and bless."
~Unknown
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be just themselves, and not twist them with our own image - otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
~Unknown
"He whom love touches not walks in darkness."
~Plato
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is muct that is fair, and through in all lands love is mingled with grief, love grows perhaps the greater."
~J.R.R. Tolkien
"The path to love isn't a choice, for all of us must find out who we are. This is our spirtual destiny. The path can be postponed; you can lose faith in it or even despair that love exists. None of that is permanent; only the path is."
~Deepak Chopra
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
~Franklin P. Jones
"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."
~Unknown
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny withoutleaving some mark on it forever."
~Francois Muriac
"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in yoru nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day."
~Unknown
"I could do without many things with no hardship -- you are not one of them."
~Ashleigh Brilliant
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the diesovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressivemess of love between two himan beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident."
~Sir Hugh Walpoe
"So long as we are loved by others I should say thast we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
~Robert Louis Stevenson