Being in love can be carried on the wings of poetry, announced publicly through each other's gazes. It is made real and felt with every act of unconditional care and comfort that the lover provides. Love can be beyond labels.
[ G.R. No. 196359, May 11, 2021 ]
TAN-ANDAL VS. ANDAL
Love is founded on a promise: to seek beyond ourselves in order to enable and ennoble the other to continue to become the best version of themselves.
902 Phil. 558
EN BANC
[ G.R. No. 196359, May 11, 2021 ]
ROSANNA L. TAN-ANDAL, PETITIONER, VS. MARIO VICTOR M. ANDAL, RESPONDENT.
“But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.”
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
"One of the ironic verities of life, it has been said, is that sorrow is sometimes a touchstone of love."
G.R. No. 70890, 18 September 1992,
Cresencio Libi and Amelia Yap Libi v. Hon. Intermediate Appellate Court,
“If the two eventually fell in love, despite the disparity in their ages and academic levels, this only lends substance to the truism that the heart has reasons of its own which reason does not know.”
G.R. No. 49549 August 30, 1990
EVELYN CHUA-QUA vs. HON. JACOBO C. CLAVE
“Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince