Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the  romance in a relationship -- 
and find out that you still care for that person.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear

A sad thing in life is, you meet someone who means a lot to you,  
only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be, and you just have to let go.
 

There are things you would love to hear that you would never hear from the person whom you would like to hear them from; but do not be so deaf as not to hear it from the one who says it from his heart.

Never say goodbye if you still want to try.
Never give up if you still feel you can go on.
Never say you do not love a person anymore if you cannot let go.

The heart has its reason which reason does not know. -Blaise Pascal

Love does not consist on gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.

Love is like a quicksand, the deeper you fall in, the harder it is to get out.

Love is like a knife, it can stab the heart or it can carve wonderful images into the soul that will last a lifetime.

"Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!" 

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.   -Rainer Maria Rilke 

"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with  an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and  squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely,  with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."    -Kaleel Jamison
 

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you         must forget the rules and play from your heart." 
"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains,  the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."      -Abraham Crowley

The man who injures a total stranger is guilty of a crime, but there's no word to describe the man who wantonly injures his friends. 

If you let past loves rule your future then you will never live anywhere but in the bubble made of the former pain and you will live there alone

 Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. --Henry Ward Beecher

There are some things that we never want to let go of... people we never want to leave behind, but keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the world. Its the beginning of new life.

Heartbreaks will last as long as you want and cut deep as you allow them to go; the challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from them. 

True love doesn't have a happy ending. That's because true love doesn't have an ending.

A heart truly in love never loses hope but always believes in the promise of love, no matter how long the time and how far the distance.

Lots of people will want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Love has its own time, season and own reasons! You can't ask it to stay, you can only embrace it as it comes and be glad that for a moment in your life it was yours!

In relationships, thank God when you're hurting or crying. There you are given the chance to measure the importance of the relationship of the person and of yourself...then you grow.

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never finding the courage to let the person know how you feel.

Its' true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of a disappointed love.

Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed,and need to love those who still love even though they've been hurt before.

Don't go for looks it can deceive; don't go for wealth - even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile coz' only a smile makes a dark day seem bright.

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we should know how to be grateful for that gift.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them with our own image - otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance even celebration of another's personhood.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -Mother Theresa