I bought a wondeful book today, "Abounding Grace: An Anthology of Wisdom" edited by M. Scott Peck, M.D. There's a section on love, and these jumped out at me: "Intellect, in its effort to explain Love, got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving." --Rumi "We can perhaps learn to prepare for love. We can welcome its coming, we can learn to treasure and cherish it when it comes, but we cannot make it hapen. We are elected into love." --Irene Claremont de Castillejo "One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night." --Margaret Mead "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only what you are expecting to give--which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving. If you are very lucky, you may be loved back. That is delicious, but it does not necessarily happen." --Katherine Hepburn "Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky before teh sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything." --Annie Sullivan "Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible." --W. Stanley Mooneyham "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."-- Robert A. Heinlein "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." --W.H. Auden "True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked." --Erich Segal "Effort matters in everything, love included. Learning to love is purposeful work." --Michael Levine "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." --David Viscott