| Love is...patient and kind. How can we say we love | | | | Love is sublime. Love gives power. Love gives |
| someone if we get easily frustrated and treat them | | | | determination. In love, many lovers do what they could |
| with disrespect? | | | | never dream of. Empires have been sacrificed for |
| Love is...rejoicing in the truth. Is it possible to love | | | | love. Battles have been fought for love. Love has ruled |
| someone and deliberately lie to them? Love is...bearing | | | | mankind since ages. Those who experience love are |
| all things. That means putting up with each other's | | | | truly lucky. Real love is supportive. Love yourself, love |
| faults. No one is perfect. Love is...believing all things. It | | | | your dream, love your mission, love your life, and surely |
| doesn't mean we have doubt about someone. We | | | | enough, a wonderful person will show up and love you |
| should be able to take what someone says at face | | | | even more. Love is best seen as devotion and action, |
| value. It is trust. Love is...hopeful in all things. It's knowing | | | | not an emotion. Love is not exclusively based on how |
| that everything will work out for the best. Love | | | | we feel. |
| is...enduring. That means it puts up with the little things | | | | Certainly our emotions are involved, but they cannot be |
| that drive us crazy. Love is...never failing. Love is real | | | | our only criteria for love. True devotion will always lead |
| when it can stand up to all these things. It looks for the | | | | to action - true love. |
| best in others and brings these things out. | | | | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not |
| True love can stand the test of time. Being with | | | | boast, it is not proud. ... Love does not delight in evil but |
| someone for a long period of time allows you to go | | | | rejoices with the truth. |
| through different emotions and periods with that | | | | Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown "Love is an |
| person. If your heart has the strength to weather | | | | ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe "To be in |
| through these different experiences with your lover, | | | | love is merely to be in a state of perceptual |
| then both you and the relationship will grow stronger. | | | | anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken Love stretches your heart |
| Love doesn't mean that your lover has the | | | | and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker |
| responsibility to keep you happy and vice versa. The | | | | "Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no |
| only person who has the responsibility to make you | | | | scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman |
| happy is yourself. While you and your lover can make | | | | "Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - |
| each other "happier", you shouldn't be solely dependent | | | | Anonymous "Love consists in this, that two solitudes |
| on each other for happiness. The couples who end up | | | | protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer |
| being happy together are made up of individuals who | | | | Maria Rilke |
| were happy to begin with. Keeping yourself happy is a | | | | "Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud |
| hard enough responsibility, don't make it harder for | | | | "Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding |
| yourself by letting another person's happiness be your | | | | place." - Zora Neale Hurston "Love is the irresistible |
| responsibility too. | | | | desire to be irresistibly desired. |