"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it 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 promulgation of promises of eternal passion. 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 has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." -St. Augustine
"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life." --Aphra Behn
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." --Robert Heinlein
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." --Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery