domenica 30 gennaio 2011

What is Love?

"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 blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." 
-St. Augustine

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  1. Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

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  2. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

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  3. If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go

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  4. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

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  5. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

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  6. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

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  7. There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

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  8. What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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  9. When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.

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