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Sisypheon (sis e FEE en) adj. Caught up in an endless, hopeless, frustrating endeavor or task; futile. -- From the Greek myth of Sisyphus who was condemned to forever roll a boulder up a mountain which slipped back to the bottom just before reaching the summit.

Sometimes you have to find yourself. And when you do you realize that you may have lost what you wanted in the first place. And you find your self missing something, like a kiss or a word and you hate yourself for not being more forgiving. By then you realize that the one you hurt will never want you. And you know that when you face the uncertain horizon you do so with love that will never fade, but will always grace the intended from afar.
Jerry Grant Blakeney

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio: What is sacred? Of what is spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is only love."
Don Juan DeMarco(Johnny Depp), in Don Juan DeMarco

If you have the courage to love then you should have the courage to suffer too.
E.H. Majaw

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
Neil Gaiman

The bottom line is that love, like everything else in life that really matters, requires genuine effort. Cuddles and kisses go a long way towards making love last, but they aren't enough by themselves.
Bradley Trevor Greive

Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.
Joshua Harris
There cannot be love without suffering in one form or another.
Ema Hathaway

If you fall in love the right way, you'll never have to hit the ground.
Ema Hathaway

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land

Love partakes of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like the soul, it is a divine spark; it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable. It is a point of fire within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish. We feel it burning even in the marrow of our bones, and we see it radiate even to the depths of the sky.
Victor Hugo in Les Misérables

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977).

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

I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon
 
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
John Lennon
 
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
John Lennon

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
John Lennon, 'How?'
 
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon

All you need is love.
John Lennon/Paul McCartney

There is nothing more painful than seeing someone you love loving someone else. But there is nothing more rewarding than seeing two people you love loving each other.
J.H. Li
 
He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love.
Tristan J. Loo

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
Sir John Lubbock

Love is like an iceberg; ten per cent is on the surface, the other ninety is found deeper down.
What can be received
But never stolen?
Can be sought
But never sold?
Can be learnt
But never taught?
Can be felt
But never touched?
Love
Conor Macfarlane

And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
Professor Marvel in Wizard of Oz

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
Gabriel García Márquez

When someone hurts you, cry a river, Build a bridge and get over it!.
Richard Middleton

The success of love is in the loving- it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa
 
That's what love is. It's the never-ending dedication to one person.
Angela Mueller
 
True love is not measured in hugs and kisses, but in struggles and fears, and those who can work though those...they possess true love.
Adam Murphy
 
What is love but that which poisons the body, clouds the mind, yet envigorates the soul.
Adam Murphy
 
My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.
Boris Kodjoe, Madea's Family Reunion

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
Osho
"To be loved, love. (Si vis amari, ama.)
Ovid

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Love. Love cannot be played as a note, written on a page, nor practised or learnt. It is the gravity that pulls two lover's souls together when they gaze deep into each others eyes, for they have absolute trust in each other, and know that love is the strongest force in the universe. They know that there is nothing out in the billions of galaxies that means more than what they feel.

Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit.
Translation: The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
Syrus Publilius

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner, 1946-1989

Love can be the most wonderful feeling you will ever experience.. It can also be the worst pain your heart will ever feel.. Left all alone in love, ones soul slowly dies.. keeping ones love alive. ///
Joey Dawn Rjoem

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins in "Still Life With Woodpecker"

True love doesn’t come to you; it has to be inside of you.
Julia Roberts
 
Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.
Edwin Robinson

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubenstein
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream (I, i, 134)

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
Nicholas Sparks in "Nights in Rodanthe"

But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

You know you're in love when you can't sleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Suess

"How come we don't always know when love begins, but we always know when it ends?
Harris K. Telemacher (Steve Martin) in L. A. Story

It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love is just another chemical imbalance.
Tipper

The throb of life is love. Without it, humans are bodies of bones clad with skin.
Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 80

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
Leo Tolstoy
 
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy

Whoever said that perfection is unattainable, never fell in love.
Danielle Traylor

What's love, but a second-hand emotion.
Tina Turner

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths.
Mark Twain

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Love is the best feeling in the world, but when it ends...it's the worst!
Scott Thomson

True love never can be rent, but only true love can keep beauty innocent. You can run from love, and if it's really love it will find you, catch you by the heel, but you can't be numb for love. How can I hurt when I'm holding you? The soul needs beauty for a soulmate. When the soul wants, the soul waits...for love and sex and faith and fear.
U2
 
The soul wants, the soul waits. And I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance.
U2
 
You say love is a temple, love a higher law . You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl and I can't keep holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt
U2

How do I know when it's love? I can't tell you, but it lasts forever.
Van Halen

True love is rare, so when you find it don't let it go just because of a barrier you can't cross.
Ray H Wall
 
True love always involves a choice.
Ray H Wall
 
True love is giving all you have to someone you know you're going to lose.
Ray H Wall

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human 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 Walpole
 
An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley

Love is a minefield. You take a step and get blown to pieces, put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step. I guess that's human nature. It hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow up than be single.
Kate Welles (Famke Janssen) in Love & Sex (2000)
 
Always love your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
 
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

'Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing.'
'But it's true-'
'Still doesn't mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It is what you do to the people you love; that's what matters. That's the only thing that counts.'
Stephen (Tom Wilkinson), in The Last Kiss (2006)

It takes a minute to find someone special, an hour to appreciate them and a day to love them, but an entire lifetime to forget them.

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying
Dorothy Parker, "Unfortunate Coincidence

Living might mean taking chances,
but they're worth taking.
Loving might be a mistake,
but it's worth making

William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night (I, i,1-3)
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
I love her for her smile... her look... her way
Of speaking gently... for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought,
May be unwrought so.

Robert Browning
You see through love, and that
deludes your sight,
As what is straight seems
crooked through the water.

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
When I'm feeling blue
All I have to do
Is take a look at you
And then I'm not so blue