LOVE

My favourite description of love is from the movie Captain Corelli’s Mandolin: (Iannis to Pelagia)

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that 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 desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No...don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For 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 had burned away.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you...Roy Croft.

Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me"....Unknown.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out....Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love....Tom Robbins.

Love is an energy - it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness. Love will never die....Bryce Courtney.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get. Only with what you are expecting to give. Which is everything....Katherine Hepburn.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other....Unknown.The first duty of love is to listen....Paul Tillich.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength. While loving someone deeply gives you courage....Lao-Tsu.

You can't force someone to love you; all you can do is become someone who can be loved; the rest is up to them....Unknown.

Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you....Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Fear? What is there to fear in love? Love is the very reason we live. To fear love is to lose all sense of living, and if we cannot love, then why have we been put here? Fearing love is like being afraid of breathing. It's not something to be scared of. It's so natural that no one can resist....Unknown.

I love you, not because you are perfect, But because you are so perfect for me....Unknown.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder....Charles Morgan.

Love is a verb. We can't say it enough. Love must not only be spoken, but must also be shown. The beginning of love is God. He showed His love in the most sacrificial of ways so we could know our incredible value to Him. The price of our adoption was the emptying of heaven of its greatest treasure, God the Son, who is our Savior....Phil Ware.