Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

أعتقد بأن الحب لا يمكن شراؤه إلا بالحب.

لأن الانسان إذ يفقد جوهرة الحب اللامعة لا يتصور أنه سيسعد بالعثور عليها مرة أخرى

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.

happiness may come if not sought, but if looked for will never be seen;

Humans hunt for love. We feel that we need that love because we believe we don’t have love, because we don’t love ourselves. We hunt for love in other humans just like us, expecting to get love from them when these humans are in the same condition as we are. They don’t love themselves either, so how much love can we get from them? We merely create a bigger need that isn’t real; we keep hunting and hunting, but in the wrong place, because other humans don’t have the love we need.

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

If you've never known love, you never know where it is, you don't know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it.

One of the greatest obstacles to giving unconditional love is our fear that the love may not be returned. We don't realize that the feeling we seek lies in the giving, not in the receiving.

الحب لا يمكن تفسيره، ولا يمكن إلا معايشته واختباره. ومع أن الحب لا يمكن تفسيره فهو يفسر كل شيء.

We can’t expect to get love right when we’ve never been educated on how to give or receive it. How to manage our emotions in connection to someone else’s. How to understand others. How to build and nurture a relationship where both people thrive.

You do not find love. It finds you.

anyone who expects love to be sensible has perhaps never loved.