What is love? (again)

"Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love." --Helen Keller

"Love is like pi--natural, irrational, and very important." --Lisa Hoffman

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." --Fr. Jerome Cummings

"When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness--and call it love--true love." --Robert Fulghum

"Love is being stupid together." --Paul Valery

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

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." --Erica Jong

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence." --Goncourt