a gift

"Love is always bestowed as a gift-- freely, willingly, and without expectation... We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
Leo Buscaglia

endless

"Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."
Germaine De Stael

a resting place

"We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us."
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

reason

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."
Jacques Benigne Bossuel

worthwhile

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Franklin P. Jones

the heart's friend

Fair is the white star of twilight,
And the sky clearer
At the day’s end;
But she is fairer, and she is dearer,
She, my heart’s friend!

Fair is the white star of twilight,
And the moon roving
To the sky’s end;
But she is fairer, better worth loving,
She, my heart’s friend.

Shoshone Love Song

openness

“your slightest look
easily will unclose me
though I have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal
myself as spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously)
her first rose.”
E. E. Cummings