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How to Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
In a deep relationship, there’s no longer a boundary between you and the other person. You are her and she is

you. Your suffering is her suffering. Your understanding of your own suffering helps your loved one to suffer
less. Suffering and happiness are no longer individual matters. What happens to your loved one happens to you.

What happens to you happens to your loved one. In true love, there’s no more separation or discrimination. His
happiness is your happiness. Your suffering is his suffering. You can no longer say, “That’s your problem.”

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make

a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have 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 eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over
when being in love has burned away. Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,

and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.

A Love Letter by Victor Hugo

When two souls, which have sought each other for however

long, have finally found each other, and in fact, they are one;
there arises a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are… a

union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

This union is love, true love, …a genuine love of which few
men can conceive; love that is a religion, which deifies the

loved one, whose very life comes from devotion and passion,
and for which the greatest sacrifices are the sweetest delights.

Love is an Adventure by Pierre Tielhart de Chardin
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops like the universe itself only by perpetual discovery.
The only right love is that between couples whose passion leads them both, one through the other, to a higher

possession of their being. Put your faith in the spirit which dwells between the two of you. You have each offered

yourself to the other as a boundless field of understanding, of enrichment, of mutually increased sensibility. You
will meet above all by entering into and constantly sharing one another's thoughts, affections, and dreams. There

alone you will find no disappointments, no limits. There alone the skies are ever open for your love; there alone

lies the great road ahead.
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