"Love is a verb" by Susan Forward

“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. 
Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. 
If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. 
Don’t kid yourself that they are.”


― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

  

"To Love" by C.S. Lewis

   “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” 

                                                              

                                                                         C.S. Lewis

"We lost the way" by Charlie Chaplin

   "I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. 
     I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.
     In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way..."

                                                                   Charlie Chaplin

"Life is unfair" by George Carlin

   “The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus?
     I think the life cycle is all backwards. 
     You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...
     ...and you finish off as an orgasm.”
                                                                            George Carlin

"I love you" by Pablo Neruda

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”

Pablo Neruda

"This is to have succeeded in Life" by Bessie Anderson Stanley

  "To laugh often and love much; 
to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children;
to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; 
to appreciate beauty; 
to find the best in others; 
to give of one’s self; 
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; 
to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; 
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived
   this is to have succeeded ... " 
                              

                                                                Bessie Anderson Stanley

"The greatest excitement" by Neale Donald Walsch

     If you need to know in advance that everything will "work out" before you jump in, you'll never jump into anything. Yet "jumping in" is life's greatest excitement, its grandest adventure. Don't deny yourself that. Just go for it.

    Trust that Life will bring you benefit no matter what happens...

                                                             Neale Donald Walsch