Seemed Appropriate

I found these and they seemed appropriate for whatever it is I'm searching for:

You can understand the facts of life. But facts of love are much different. To love you love someone or someone loves you.. But when you both love each other you're in love with one another. First become friends and let it go. Then get serious and get together. Just make yourself known as a person not as someone you don't want to be known as... - Unknown

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with. - Unknown

Trouble is part of your life — if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. - Dinah Shore

True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending. - K Knight

Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Irons (really! I'm not kidding!)

Well, you're getting the idea. These words mimic the thoughts I have always held on what love is, but now their ideas share truth with my belief in them. It's two worlds coming together for me - what I think and what I believe. It's not enough to say, "Yes, I think love is a wonderful thing." If you really understand that, you don't need to say it. You know that believing it is enough. Love really is a wonderful thing.

This quote, though, I found to be insightful. Because it accurately reflects a basic truth that I only recently realized on my own. To be honest, that anyone should share these words seems to diminish the value of discovering them on your own.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. - Anna Louise Strong

I'm going to go listen to some Ella Fitzgerald now and feel good about life.