True Love

Here is a good quote which is, perhaps, applicable since today is Valentine's Day.

True love’s the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy’s hot fire,
Whose wishes soon as granted fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.

- Sir Walter Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. Stanza 13
(see http://www.bartleby.com/100/338.11.html)

True love perseveres over time. It persists even when difficulties arise. It brings out the best in you and impels you to do your best to bring out the best in the one you love. True love requires action, patience, service, trust and forgiveness.