Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
~ Robert Heinlein.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~ Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~ Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music,
"You Are Sixteen (Reprise)" (Thanks, Krystel)
