"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is." ― Iris Murdoch Topic(s): Love More From Iris Murdoch "There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship." "Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self." "Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph." More In Love "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."― Thomas Merton "He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back."― Henri Matisse "We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld