The beginning of love is to

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

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. -Sam Keen

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end. -Madame de Stael

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. -Henry Drummond

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Anonymous