Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not
      ours to command.
      Alan Watts

      To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
      Anne-Sophie Swetchine

      To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three
      parts dead.
      Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

      Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not
      the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
      Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)

      Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and
      clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
      Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

      The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
      substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
      Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

      Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
      Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

      To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
      David Viscott

      Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out
      of you.
      Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

      Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and
      yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less
      than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at
      marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky,"
      says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and
      earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run
      because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat
      because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you
      and I shall love because of you."
      Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992

      There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of
      the heart.
      Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

      They didn't need men because they had each other, a significant other. It
      doesn't matter if the cat's in pants or pedal-pushers. I don't think we're
      supposed to fly solo.
      Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lucky People, 1995

      Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
      A medley of extemporanea;
      And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
      And I am Marie of Roumania.
      Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"

      When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
      Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.

      There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason
      in madness.
      Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"

      I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum: what's the sound of one
      hand clapping? My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you
      don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping
      hands, what's the point? The point is that we all need somebody, whether
      you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is
      hooked into everybody else.
      Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

      Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
      H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

      Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you
      thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love.
      Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a
      brief moment of vanity.
      Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

      There is no remedy for love but to love more.
      Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839

      Just because you love someone doesnot mean you have to be involved with
      them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
      Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004