"The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being."
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)