Love?

"Love is a many splendid things, love lifts us up where we belong- all you need is love."

-Moulin Rouge

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day."

-Nicholas Sparks

"Love is a choice."

"Love is temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love", which any of us can convince we are. Love itself is what's left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other under ground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."

-St. Augustine