I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you cant.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace not the means to anything but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.

What is it about the moment you fall in love How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity I suddenly realize why people believe in dj vu why people believe theyve lived past lives because there is no way the years Ive spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what Im feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it generationsall of them rearranging themselves so that this precise remarkable intersection could happen. In you heart in your bones no matter how silly you know it is you feel that everything has been leading to this all the secret arrows were pointing here the universe and time itself crafted this long ago and you are just now realizing it you are now just arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

Before I go he said and paused -- I may kiss herIt was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips he murmured some words. The child who was nearest to him told them afterwards and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady that she heard him say A life you love.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Everything happens for a reason and something better will come along for me

Happiness you see its just an illusion of Fate a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But theres no happily ever after. Youll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.