Brands mature over time like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

Unfenced by law the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth the delight the ecstasy of it you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

We must declare ourselves become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love but the emotion itself.