Remember this and keep it to your heart.

[Richard Manuel]

Remember this and keep it to your heart.

Love has its time, its own season, its own reason for coming and going.

You cannot bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into staying.

You can only embrace it when it arrives.

And give it away when it comes to you.

But if it chooses to leave from your heart

Or from the heart of your lover,

There is nothing you can do and there is nothing you should do.