Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in Peanuts
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, were are looking at creation itself. I am the sky, says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992
Theres a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
They didnt need men because they had each other, a significant other. It doesnt matter if the cats in pants or pedal-pushers. I dont think were supposed to fly solo.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lucky People, 1995
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), Comment
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), On Reading and Writing
Ive been thinking about that old Zen conundrum: whats the sound of one hand clapping? My personal opinion--nothing. You dont have two hands, you dont have any clapping. Its as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, whats the point? The point is that we all need somebody, whether youre a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else.
