When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. -Khalil Gibran

The only things in life you regret, Are the risks that you didn't take. -Unknown

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. -Christopher Morley

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -Elbert Hubbard

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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. -Louis De Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes… -Elizabeth Barret Browning

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever. -Robert Burns

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path. -Andre Gide

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction. -Simone Weil