The Manual of LOve

“Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I'm obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.”

It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die and you should think about it while there is still time.

• Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
• To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
• Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state.  Being in love shows a person who he should be.
• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
• Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
• Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
• All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon sand.
• Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
• When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
• What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
• Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
• There is no remedy for love but to love more.
• Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
• Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
• We can only learn to love by loving.

• But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
• Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
• Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
• True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
• It’s the tenderest part of love, each other to forgive.
• Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?
• How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
• To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
• Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
• When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
• Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
• Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
• To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage; because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
• Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
• Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.
• Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
• Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
• Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
• The first duty of love is to listen.

• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
• Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
• Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
• I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
• I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
• You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
• One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
• Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.
• Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
• A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
• The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
• There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
• Never marry but for love; but see that thou loves what is lovely.
• Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.