No one ever said love was easy, they just said it was worth it. If anyone said it was easy, they were lying. You can be sure of that. Love is probably the hardest thing you will experience in your life. Sure, love can be fun and silly, but there are times when you have to make sacrifices and give up the things you want to keep. Love is not free. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysander says, "The course of true love never ran smooth," which has many meanings. First of all, this phrase from A Midsummer Night's Dream can mean that you have to work hard for love. Love doesn't fall from the sky and reach your knees. It takes patience, determination and hard work! Helena says: "If I have thanks, it is a costly expense/But by that I mean that I enrich my pain/To have his sight there and return." (Act I, scene i, line 252, page 36) This means that she goes through a lot of pain just to be with Demetrius, she works hard to get his affections because you have to prove to this person that you are. really love...