“Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow. Everybody.” — Heather

Laugh and the world laughs with you.  Complain, bitch & moan and everyone will slowly leave you to stew in your own juices.
And with good reason to whine.

13. We are not fit to lead a man into bed
unless we are familiar with the map of his body–its
mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices,
its marshes and swamps, its dreads and desires.
15. In bed, practice dissimulation, and you will fail.

16. Whether to concentrate or to divide his troops,
must be decided before the lube is [...]

20. The onrush of lovers’ first commingled juices is like the bursting
of pent-up waters into a chasm a thousand fathoms deep.

What words hide, the heart heralds.

2. When you engage in actual lovemaking, if her pleasure
is long in coming, then men’s members will grow dull and
their ardor will be damped.
3. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources
of the Priapus will not be equal to the strain.
4. Now, when your members are dulled, your ardor damped,
your strength exhausted and your treasure [...]

Remember that having a different set of rules to live and love by does not imply that there are no rules at all; there are protocols one must follow when wooing.

Nothing else. Rules that apply in any other area of one’s life may or may not apply in Love. The unique nature of love is a good thing: nothing else can so enrich and redeem all of one’s life.

The one you want may not be the one your heart needs.

In love, being a perfectionist may only guarantee you a healthy dose of perfect misery or a generous helping of perfect loneliness.

When attempting to discern who is right for you, remember that falling in love is like moving a boxspring & mattress up a spiral staircase — with the right person, the burdens of the pursuit are shared.

A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes.
- Fontenelle
This can be, but if she’s the right lady, she will be right, in all ways.

They can coexist, or they can happen independently. The biggest risk exists when starting with one, and evolving to the other (typically from Lust to Love). The really is no such thing as casual physical intimacy; emotions are a part of all things.

…rather than be thrown out forcibly.
Sure, words spoken in kindness and in gentle tones may assuage the damage to the ego of an unrequited admirer, but make no mistake: for all the niceties, when the target of those affections finds someone that resonates with them, there will be a void as they go hurrying [...]

All emotion is married to action by choice, and only by choice. In all cases, one may choose not to act on a given feeling. While this is fortunately true for the challenges of anger and grief, it also holds for love. A result is that no matter how much one loves another (no [...]