Life

"There is no value of life except what you choose to place upon it. "

-Unknown

When we come to the end of our lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that will matter is, "What was the quality of our love?"

-unknown

On Love..

"Love is a 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 together 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 ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is 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 underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin.  "Love is the beauty of the soul." --St. Augustine

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There is something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it..There is your life. You begin it, feeling that its something so precious and rare , so beautiful that it is like a sacred treasure. Now its over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, its just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?

-"We the Living ",Ayn Rand