The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. -:-Benjamin Disraeli
If love . . . means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone. -:-Ann Oakley
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. -:-Robertson Davies
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. -:-J. D. Salinger
I would rather have a moment of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. -:-from the movie Steel Magnolias
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. -:-
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved; the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. -:-Jack Kerouac
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies... -:-Erich Fromm
Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before. -:-
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -:-Buddha
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