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There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that. | Gayle Forman, Where She Went | love, relationships, thoughts |
She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around."What's that?" I asked."That I do still love you."With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. | Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice | belikov, dimitri, hathaway, love, rose |
You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore. | Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree | alix, heartbreak, love |
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. | Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor | death, life, love, relationships |
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.It just has to be. | David Levithan | destiny, love |
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about. | Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy | happiness, happy, heartbreak, hurt, love, self |
I don't like it when I outweigh my men. | Patricia Briggs, Moon Called | humor, love, women |
I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.Love, Dimitri | Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound | devotion, dimitri, love, rosemarie, spirit-bound |
It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life. | Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart | belief, compassion, empathy, experiences, generosity, humility, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, joy, kindness, life, life-quotes, living, love, mind, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, peace, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thoughts |
Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you. | P.C. Cast | house-of-night, love |
To love is to recognize yourself in another. | Eckhart Tolle | love |
Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over. | Nicholas Sparks | love |
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. | William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing | bachelorhood, courtship, empowerment, freedom, happiness, husbands, independence, love, marriage, self-determination, singles, wooing |
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.I love thee to the level of every day'sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love thee freely, as men strive for right.I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese | love, poems, poetry, sonnet, sonnet-xlii |
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you. | David Nicholls, One Day | life, love |
The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her hand. —should warn you that this letter will not be eloquent. However, it will be sincere, especially in light of the fact that you will never read it. I have felt these words like a weight in my chest, until I find myself amazed that a heart can go on beating under such a burden. I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking. My love, you don't belong with a man like me. In the past I've done things you wouldn't approve of, and I've done them ten times over. I have led a life of immoderate sin. As it turns out, I'm just as immoderate in love. Worse, in fact. I want to kiss every soft place of you, make you blush and faint, pleasure you until you weep, and dry every tear with my lips. If you only knew how I crave the taste of you. I want to take you in my hands and mouth and feast on you. I want to drink wine and honey from you. I want you under me. On your back. I'm sorry. You deserve more respect than that. But I can't stop thinking of it. Your arms and legs around me. Your mouth, open for my kisses. I need too much of you. A lifetime of nights spent between your thighs wouldn't be enough. I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to me. If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.And there it stopped. | Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas | angst, hannah-appleton, love, love-letters, passion, rafe-bowman, romance |
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters, | Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations | attention, compassion, happiness, happy-life, inspirational, kindness, life, love, meaning-of-life, meditation, money, oneness, peace, perspective, philosophy, positive-attitude, positive-living, purpose, purpose-in-life, purpose-of-life, purposeful-living, respect, revelation, self-awareness, self-discovery, spirit, spirituality, wisdom |
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. | Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart | breakup, broken, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearted-quotes, dating, faith, healing, heartache, heartbreak, heartbroken, hope, hurt, hurt-feelings, hurting, hurting-heart, inspirational, life, life-lessons, love, romance |
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. | Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms | love, self-sacrifice |
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough. | Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You | dependability, love, lovers, relationships |
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. | Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe | love |
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue. | Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming | books, garbage, heathcliff, jay-gatsby, love, men, movies, mr-darcy, prince-charming, rochester, romantic, romeo, time, waste |
You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that. | Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince | friendship, laughter, love |
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury. | Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage | desire, longing, love |
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. | Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass | being-single, dating, goals, hard-to-get, holding-out-for-the-best, love, loving-yourself, not-settling, playing-hard-to-get, positive-thinking, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, standards, the-single-woman, validation |
How do you know when it's over?" "Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you. | Gunnar Ardelius, I Need You More Than I Love You and I Love You to Bits | falling-out-of-love, i-love-you, i-need-you, love, maybe, memories, move-on, over, when, when-it-s-over |
And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return. | Lauren Oliver, Requiem | love |
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. | Ernest Hemingway | love |
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same. | Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums | god, inspirational, love, spiritual |
You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too. | James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | life, love, religion |
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know. | Adolf Hitler | fight, love, respect |
The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them. | Steve Hall | commitment, love, respect |
Nothing on this planet can compare with a woman’s love—it is kind and compassionate, patient and nurturing, generous and sweet and unconditional. Pure. If you are her man, she will walk on water and through a mountain for you, too, no matter how you’ve acted out, no matter what crazy thing you’ve done, no matter the time or demand. If you are her man, she will talk to you until there just aren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’re at rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold you in her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’re up. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you—I mean really loves you?—she will shine you up when you’re dusty, encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’s not so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, even when you’re not saying anything worth listening to. And no matter what you do, no matter how many times her friends say you’re no good, no matter how many times you slam the door on the relationship, she will give you her very best and then some, and keep right on trying to win over your heart, even when you act like everything she’s done to convince you she’s The One just isn’t good enough.That’s a woman’s love—it stands the test of time, logic, and all circumstance....Well, I’m here to tell you that expecting that kind of love— that perfection—from a man is unrealistic. That’s right, I said it—it’s not gonna happen, no way, no how. Because a man’s love isn’t like a woman’s love. | Steve Harvey | love, men, women |
I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence? | Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife | love, melancholy |
The fact is…I’m in love with you, and I have been for some time. | Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse | love, romance |
He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes."I want to kiss you, Rose," he said softly. "And I want you to want me too. | Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss | adrian-ivashkovn, love, vampire-academy |
Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you. | L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island | love |
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again. | Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt | change, heartbreak, love, moment, narrative |
If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will protect upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else. | Elizabeth Gilbert | love |
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me. | Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding | love, sharing-love, telling-love |
I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes. | Niall Horan | love, niall-horan, one-direction |
I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you. | Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight | kleypas, love, soulmate |
I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight out my soul-battles and grow up with courage and a philosophical ease. I love his good smell and his body that fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that. What is only pieces, doled out here and there to this boy and that boy, that made me like pieces of them, is all jammed together in my husband. So I don't want to look around any more: I don't need to look around for anything. | Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath | love, marriage, romance |
May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! | Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights | betrayal, death, hate, love, malediction, obsession, thwarted |
No, it's not that. It's not what you're thinking. I was serious when I said 'all of it'. I can remember every moment we were together, and in eachof them there was something wonderful. I can't really pick any one time that meant more than any other. The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have. How could I pick one moment over another? Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it. | Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook | love, wonderful |
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him. | Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo | hurt, love, nora, patch |
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. | Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels | city-of-fallen-angels, clary-fray, lost, love |
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. | James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small | animals, gratitude, love, loyalty, soul |
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. | Oscar Wilde | life, love, wealth-of-soul |
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream. | Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes | adoration, love, possessiveness |
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. | Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice | affection, duty, feelings, integrity, joy, love, marriage, matrimony, romance, self-determination |
Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be. | Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal | apart, demon-cynster, longing, love, romance |
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him. | Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary | love, men, relationships |
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. | W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil | love, men, women |
anyone lived in a pretty how town(with up so floating many bells down)spring summer autumn winterhe sang his didn't he danced his didWomen and men(both little and small)cared for anyone not at allthey sowed their isn't they reaped their samesun moon stars rainchildren guessed(but only a fewand down they forgot as up they grewautumn winter spring summer)that noone loved him more by morewhen by now and tree by leafshe laughed his joy she cried his griefbird by snow and stir by stillanyone's any was all to hersomeones married their everyoneslaughed their cryings and did their dance(sleep wake hope and then)theysaid their nevers they slept their dreamstars rain sun moon(and only the snow can begin to explainhow children are apt to forget to rememberwith up so floating many bells down)one day anyone died i guess(and noone stooped to kiss his face)busy folk buried them side by sidelittle by little and was by wasall by all and deep by deepand more by more they dream their sleepnoone and anyone earth by aprilwish by spirit and if by yes.Women and men (both dong and ding)summer autumn winter springreaped their sowing and went their camesun moon stars rain | E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems | love |
She's my kitten, and no one else's. | Jeaniene Frost, One Foot in the Grave | love, vampire |
Work without love is slavery. | Mother Teresa | faith, love, work |
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency'. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! | decency, humor, love, respect |
I love you more than I hate everything else. | Rainbow Rowell, Landline | love, marriage |
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. | Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude | heart, love |
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel. | Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time | fire, love |
One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind. | Osho | advaita, consciouness, enlightenment, evolution, guru, healing, love, meditation, realization, satsang, spirituality, teacher |
Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil | Eminem | love |
I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn. | Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses | feyre, fire, love, passion, tamlin |
Wait a second," Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one who scolds me, or the one who climbs Ferris wheels with me. He smiles a little, but the smile doesn't spread to his eyes, which look less tense and worried."You belong here, you know that?" he says. "You belong with us. It'll be over soon, so just hold on, okay?"He scratches behind his ear and looks away, like he's embarrassed by what he said. I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe. I stare up at him, and he stares down at me. For a long moment, we stay that way. Then I pull my hand away and run after Uriah and Lynn and Marlene. Maybe now he thinks I'm stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it. | Veronica Roth, Divergent | happiness, love, truth |
If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons | humor, love, violence |
He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know. | Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever | affection, crappy-boyfriends, love, relationships |
Marry me, Kiara,” he blurts out in front of everyone.“Why?” she asks, challenging him.“Because I love you,” he says, walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his, “and I want to go to sleep with you every night and wake up seein’ your face every mornin’, I want you to be the mother of my children, I want to fix cars with you and eat your crappy tofu tacos that you think are Mexican. I want to climb mountains with you and be challenged by you, I want to argue with you just so we can have crazy hot makeup sex. Marry me, because without you I’d be six feet under … and because I love your family like they’re my own … and because you’re my best friend and I want to grow old with you.” He starts tearing up, and it’s shocking because I’ve never seen him cry. “Marry me, Kiara Westford, because when I got shot the only thing I was thinkin’ about was comin’ back here and makin’ you my wife. Say yes, chica. | Simone Elkeles, Chain Reaction | carlos, engagement, kiara, love, proposal |
And he leans in, so carefully. Breathingand not breathing and hearts beatingbetween us and he’s so close, he’s so close and I can’t feel my legs anymore. I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers“Please.”He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.”And he kisses me.His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. It’s sweet, it’sso effortlessly sweet.And then it changes.“Oh God—”He kisses me again, this time stronger,desperate, like he has to have me, like he’s dying to memorize the feel of my lips against his own. The taste of him is making me crazy; he’s all heat and desire and peppermint and I want more. I've just begun reeling him in, pulling him into me when he breaks away.He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind andhe’s looking at me like something has brokeninside of him, like he’s woken up to find thathis nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now he’s awake and he’s safe and everything is going to be okay andI’m falling.I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster. | Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me | juliette, love, revelation, warner |
But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one. | Marissa Meyer, Scarlet | love, lunar-chronicles, scarlet, wolf |
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.""Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. | Jane Austen, Persuasion | books, clichés, constancy, double-standards, education, feminism, gender, inequality, love, men, misogyny, opportunities, social-norms, stereotypes, women |
The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace | Mother Teresa | faith, love, mother, path, peace, prayer, service, simple, teresa |
Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this. | Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale | love |
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. | C.S. Lewis | change, life-lessons, love, pain |
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. | Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day | adultery, humor, infidelity, love, relationships, romance, statistics, suspicion |
Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love. | Thich Nhat Hanh, Teachings on Love | love, meditation, relationships |
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. | Homer, The Iliad | classics, greece, longing, love, lovers |
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. | Martin Luther King Jr. | justice, love, segregation |
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name. | William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream | comprehension, devils, earth, egypt, fantasy, helen, imagination, love, lover, lunatic, madmen, poet, poetry, reason, words |
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? | Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen | cruel, god, human, hurt, love, pain |
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. | Shannon L. Alder | beliefs, books, boyfriend, choices, faith, family, friendships, girlfriend, hang-ups, in-love, life, love, marriage, memories, moving-on, nostalgia, obsessions, peace, relationships, religion, sister-in-laws, sisters, spouse, unrequited-love, wife, writing |
Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you. | Jason Mraz | anger, frustration, healing, life, love, truth, wisdom |
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. | Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities | love, passion |
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. | Philip Roth, The Dying Animal | love |
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. | Hermann Hesse | love |
Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive. | Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven | lessons, love |
You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting. | J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan | dreams, love |
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie. | Lauren Oliver, Delirium | love |
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person. | Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies | love, trust |
If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love. | Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium | love |
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. | Mahatma Gandhi | love |
Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey | love |
If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have. | John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom | karma, love |
And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. | Christopher Poindexter | brokenness, drunk, love, misattributed-f-scott-fitzgerald |
Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that's lovely isBut a brief, dreamy, kind delight.O Never give the heart outright,For they, for all smooth lips can say,Have given their hearts up to the play.And who could play it well enoughIf deaf and dumb and blind with love?He that made this knows all the cost,For he gave all his heart and lost. | W.B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age | acting, heartbreak, in-the-seven-woods, loss, love, never-give-all-the-heart, passion, play, w-b-yeats, william-butler-yeats, yeats |
You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry? | Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me | heartache, heartbreak, love |
You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go. | Kristan Higgins, My One and Only | breakup, couples, divorce, love, sad |
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | love, meaning, motivation, neil-degrasse, science, successful-people |
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. | Erica Jong, Fear of Flying | love, risk |
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. | Woody Allen | funny, love, sex |
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