"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."

Hugging My LOVE

Love is so short, forgetting is so long

“The crime of loving is forgetting.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

http://blog.ted.com/2006/09/paradox_of_choi.php

http://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_tells_us_why_we_love_cheat.html