When you lvoe someone, the best you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? - Thich Nhat Hant

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Rumi

Love is the bridge between you and everything. - Rumi

To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be.
The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost.
But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honour what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness. - Heidi Priebe