Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

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"You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still."

- Thomas Moore

Resilience

"And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again."

- Thomas Moore

Reflection

"My Birthday! what a different sound / That word had in my youthful ears."

- Thomas Moore

Reflection

"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."

- Thomas Moore

Spirituality

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"We cannot control who we fall in love with, but we can choose how we treat them."

- Beauty and the Beast

Relationships

"I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it."

- Nick Cannon

Relationships

"It’s not what’s under the tree that matters, it’s who’s gathered around it."

Relationships

"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same."

- Donald E. Westlake

Relationships

"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."

- Lucille Ball

Relationships