Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important.

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall;
A mighty love within my breast has grown,
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One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall;
A mighty love within my breast has grown,
Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;
And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.
[Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere:
Un amour eternel en un moment concu.
La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire,
Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. read more

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.