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Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry. -Rose Stokes

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done. -Francis W. Bourdillon

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. -Vincent van Gogh

I have no regrets. I will never regret loving someone because the feeling of love for five minutes is greater than an eternity of hurt. -Kurt Langner

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

Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. -William Shakespeare

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -Mother Teresa

In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person. -Margaret Anderson