Kahlil Gibran

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed.

Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.