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29b6a19 Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. love elizabeth-gilbert pray Elizabeth Gilbert
7bc9d94 The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. love bitterness Euripides
a76bb77 There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard. magic love no-denying Nicholas Sparks
0b2d193 I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire. marriage love souls Emily Brontë
746f4bb Give me the Love that leads the wa prayer god love inspirational Amy Carmichael
d71be09 I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were. love Haruki Murakami
1cd195a The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things , objectively, and to be able to separate this picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears. understanding love subjective objective objectivity narcissism understanding-oneself-and-others humility narcissistic selfishness psychology Erich Fromm
1f2c0a8 "Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?" Her stomach twisted. "No." She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn't had the gift before? That she couldn't have used it against him? "I would never lie--" The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. "I'm so sorry," she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. "You're even more painful to look at than she is." love cinder marissa-meyer prince-kai betrayal Marissa Meyer
0d9fab8 Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be. pain faith living positivity happiness hope life love stoicism misery T.H. White
7c4e7f3 Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. love unearned-blessings holy worthy Marilynne Robinson
9878526 "You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting." I try to hide the shudder that goes through me at the word "execution," my shoulder screaming with pain, and look up at Tobias. It's hard to blink tears back when I see the terror in Tobias's wide, dark eyes. "No," says Tobias. His voice trembles, but his look stern as he shakes his head. "I would rather die." "I'm afraid you don't have much of a choice in that matter," replies Jeanine lightly. Tobias takes my face in this hands roughly and kisses me, the pressure of his lips pushing mine apart. I forget my pain and the terror of approaching death and for a moment, I am grateful that the memory of that kiss will be fresh in my mind as I meet my end." love hurt Veronica Roth
cd0084d And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold. love Khaled Hosseini
4077d87 When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant. love Lisa Unger
6f75f57 That kind of love should've been able to beat sickness. That kind of love should've conquered anything. love onyx Jennifer L. Armentrout
31ccbc6 Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. time love museum space nostalgia Orhan Pamuk
15984c2 "It's impossible," he snapped. "Why?" "Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that." confidence love rake Lisa Kleypas
7b9dc49 Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. lauren-oliver romance love inspirational delirium novels Lauren Oliver
a6ba569 In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them. relationship love inspirational need Steve Maraboli
87e68fe I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved. love Sue Monk Kidd
ab0497a She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she's turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky. My mother did not choose a leaf or a head. She chose my father. And to hold on to a certain feeling, she sacrificed the world. loss sadness love Nicole Krauss
5b4ef8c You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid love Oscar Wilde
c798bb4 I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done. lessons love waiting patience Elisabeth Elliot
d5bc725 Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain. harry-potter romance love hermione-granger J.K. Rowling
74cf893 If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings. lessons thoughts life love inspirational perspective self Nayyirah Waheed
5c3c518 I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once. love sad George R.R. Martin
bc35f7b "And everyone saw me. Tobias saw me. I hear footsteps. Tobias marches toward me and wrenches me to my feet. "What the hell was that, Stiff?" "I..." My breath comes in a hiccup. "I didn't-" "Get yourself together! This is pathetic." Something within me snaps. My tears stop. Heat races through my body, driving the weakness out of me, and I smack him so hard my knuckles burn with the impact. He stares at me, one side of his face bright with blush-blood, and I stare back. "Shut up," I say. I yank my arm from his grasp and walk out of the room." love Veronica Roth
c2751af I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. beauty friendship god love C.S. Lewis
8884169 "She put one hand on mine. "When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times." -- love Mitch Albom
9b37290 I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none. lies good love truth mrs-coulter Philip Pullman
217f705 Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. pain grief loss sadness love missing-someone Veronica Roth
560486e Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love. reason love battle surrender Paulo Coelho
afd5c5f A real relationship is two-way. romance love Sophie Kinsella
cf2d081 "I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs, and under your tongue, and between your fingers and toes..." His mouth moved passionately over hers, urging her lips apart. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. Or at least that was how Poppy felt about it." passion romance love kleypas Lisa Kleypas
c9ec9c2 "Say it," I gritted out. "The High Lord of the Night Court is your mate." love the-suriel feyrhys feysand rhysand spoilers mates Sarah J. Maas
dac485a "I made such a fool of myself," she lamented. "Love does not make you a fool." "He didn't love me back." "That does not make you a fool, either." "Just tell me ..." Her voice cracked. "When does it stop hurting?" "Sometimes never." love Mitch Albom
e924c81 It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you. love patience Charlotte Brontë
c3eaba1 A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name. motherhood love children Barbara Kingsolver
40f0310 Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation. marriage love proposals rhett-butler Margaret Mitchell
7fcfa0e The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don't have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother. motherhood sons-and-mothers the-best-gift the-greatest-gift the-love-of-a-son true-love inspirational-quotes inspiring love inspirational mothers-and-sons real-love mothers mother C. JoyBell C.
e7c7681 How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next--if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions--you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. loneliness sorrow love wisdom ignorance despair insight Margaret Atwood
cbc3140 Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither. religion love whiskey nowhere W. Somerset Maugham
d4db204 I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. love unhappy Leo Tolstoy
a8b357d But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone-- trying love Hubert Selby Jr.
7041589 "This desire to govern a woman--it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes--really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms." romance love E.M. Forster
3b11b70 I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. love isolation Anaïs Nin
677cda9 "You know I love you right?" "I know," he breathed, his arm tightening automatically around my waist. "You know how much I wish it was enough." -- love jacob-black Stephenie Meyer
a4d4d7d For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel. love sandman Neil Gaiman
2998635 When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our". relationships life love inspirational understanding-others Steve Maraboli
1396b9a To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult. humor love truth inspirational Santosh Kalwar
a7c7ff4 To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes. sex inspiration religion happiness love connection Dan Simmons
d9a286f "Dear Max - You looked so beautiful today. I'm going to remember what you looked like forever. ... And I hope you remember me the same way - clean, ha-ha. I'm glad our last time together was happy. But I'm leaving tonight, leaving the flock, and this time it's for good. I don't know if I'll ever see any of you again. The thing is, Max, that everyone is a little bit right. Added up all together, it makes this one big right. Dylan's a little bit right about how my being here might be putting the rest of you in danger. The threat might have been just about Dr. Hans, but we don't know that for sure. Angel is a little bit right about how splitting up the flock will help all of us survive. And the rest of the flock is a little bit right about how when you and I are together, we're focused on each other - we can't help it. The thing is, Maximum, I love you. I can't help but be focused on you when we're together. If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're the one who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together, the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray. I hope you'll forgive me someday for turning our worlds into shades of gray - at least for a while. ... You're not at your best when you're focused on me. I mean, you're at your best Maxness, but not your best leaderness. I mostly need Maxness. The flock mostly needs leaderness. And Angel, if you're listening to this, it ain't you, sweetie. Not yet. ... At least for a couple more years, the flock needs a leader to survive, no matter how capable everyone thinks he or she is. The truth is that they do need a leader, and the truth is that you are the best leader. It's one of the things I love about you. But the more I thought about it, the more sure I got that this is the right thing to do. Maybe not for you, or for me, but for all of us together, our flock. Please don't try to find me. This is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, besides wearing that suit today, and seeing you again will only make it harder. You'd ask me to come back, and I would, because I can't say no to you. But all the same problems would still be there, and I'd end up leaving again, and then we'd have to go through this all over again. Please make us only go through this once. ... I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping. I love your hair streaming out behind you as we fly, with the sunlight making it shine, if it doesn't have too much mud or blood in it. I love seeing your wings spreading out, white and brown and tan and speckled, and the tiny, downy feathers right at the top of your shoulders. I love your eyes, whether they're cold or calculating or suspicious or laughing or warm, like when you look at me. ... You're the best warrior I know, the best leader. You're the most comforting mom we've ever had. You're the biggest goofball, the worst driver, and a truly lousy cook. You've kept us safe and provided for us, in good times and bad. You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, with wings or without. ... Tell you what, sweetie: If in twenty years we haven't expired yet, and the world is still more or less in one piece, I'll meet you at the top of that cliff where we first met the hawks and learned to fly with them. You know the one. Twenty years from today, if I'm alive, I'll be there, waiting for you. You can bet on it. Good-bye, my love. love maximum patterson max james letter ride sweet teen James Patterson
4d252e5 And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say 'be careful' or 'don't do it', but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him. harry-potter love soulmates ginny-weasley J.K. Rowling
d138c95 Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes. love separation Veronica Roth
e365ed4 Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important. ... In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away. love C.S. Lewis
63674af "I've never been the one. Not for anybody." He closed the distance between them. "You'll get used to it." He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. "Why? Why am I the one?" "Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it." marriage romance love sweet Nora Roberts
8af1c3d , . Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. kiss love dictionary David Levithan
41dddfa Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain. love Daniel Keyes
f86913b "I guess it's time." While Cress's thoughts continued to churn through the horrible things that could happen to her, she felt herself being suddenly spun around and dipped backward, a supportive arm scooping beneath her back. She yelped and caught herself on Thorne's shoulder. Then he was kissing her." kiss love cute marissa meyer
2c126dc At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you. lying love heartbreaker sue-bridehead heartbroken selfish deception flirting cruel Thomas Hardy
8be5d89 We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence. independence love inspirational Fred Rogers
adfc787 Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too. love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt starcrossed-lovers forbidden-love impossible-love lesbian in-love unrequited-love Patricia Highsmith
c3d736f Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows -- maybe even tomorrow. love tomorrow hiding trip Haruki Murakami
e790a58 Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once. love Cornelia Funke
2c03670 "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)" men self-determination women empowerment love gentlemanlike gentlemen behaviour refusal scorn declaration marriage-proposal humiliation proposal mr-darcy propriety rejection pride Jane Austen
5da200c Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned. love valour honour respect David Gemmell
f2a83d8 My only love sprung from my only hate. love William Shakespeare
217e0ae If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? loss love jodi-picoult plain-truth wish remember sad memory Jodi Picoult
18b109a "In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you." love Rachel Caine
f73a7f4 There's no limit to what you can dream. Yo dreams love inspirational Cecelia Ahern
378daac If people are going to be allowed to say "we love you" and "I love you", they'd better have the backbone to prove it. Love isn't just a word. inspirational-quotes love inspirational inspirational-love real-love C. JoyBell C.
c4bfa3d "There's no limit to what you can dream. You the unexpected, you in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of love inspirational Cecelia Ahern
a20398d I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her -after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred-I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her soot-black lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than ever-for all the world a little patient still in the confusion of a drug after a major operation)-and the tenderness would deepen to shame and despair, and I would lull and rock my lone light Lolita in my marble arms, and moan in her warm hair, and caress her at random and mutely ask her blessing, and at the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again-and 'oh, no,' Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure-all would be shattered. sex feelings romance love brutal descriptive lust Vladimir Nabokov
82ffbae why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs. love hurt Marian Keyes
c6be5f6 Love without sacrifice is like theft marriage true-love relationships sacrifice love marriage-advice passive-aggressive passive-aggressiveness narcissists manipulation real-love narcissism Nassim Nicholas Taleb
defa5cf The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood. love wanderlust journey Rebecca Solnit
7e97bbf The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection . love truth great-writers Charles Dickens
1c0e891 Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, -- all energy, decision, will, -- were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, -- that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. love Charlotte Brontë
d4d5c97 How would your life be different if...You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day...You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity. relationships life love truth inspirational honestly authenticity respect Steve Maraboli
9b3da92 The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one. heartbreak love i-love-you John Green
4efd0ca Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what 'women's lib' teaches you, chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority. An acknowledgment o enlightenment true love inspirational Beth Fantaskey
c8b61de The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history. loneliness heart love Stefan Zweig
22aa6d2 If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for? love Lisa Kleypas
14f8878 If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about? friendship love inspirational Sophie Kinsella
bc30abe They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little tongue. You'd miss how he smiled, how his eyes glowed. And then, after the kiss was done, how he stood, like a man who had just discovered the art of standing and had figured out how to do it better than anyone else who would ever come along. love Neil Gaiman
133183e I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again. love message-in-a-bottle nicholas-sparks Nicholas Sparks
fd54348 Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over? love the-wedding nicholas-sparks sparks nicholas chance Nicholas Sparks
c1947d5 We join spokes together in a wheel poetry love philosophy inspirational Lao Tzu
43a1023 So here's the truth - I love you. I love everything about you - the way you stick up for people even when it costs you. The way you keep trying to do the right thing even when you're not exactly sure what the right thing is. I love how you put words together. You're as skilled with words as any knife fighter with a blade. You can put an enemy down on his back, or you can raise people up so they find what's best in themselves. You've changed my life. You've given me the words I need to become whatever I want. I love how you talk to . You don't talk down to them. You respect them, and anybody can tell you're actually interested in what they have to say. I love the way you ride a horse - how you stick there like an upland thistle, whooping like a Demonai. I love the way you throw back your head and stomp your feet when you dance. I love how you go after what you want - whether it's kisses or a queendom. I love your skin, like copper dusted over with gold. And your eyes - they're the color of a forest lake shaded by evergreens. One of the secret places that only the Demonai know about. I love the scent of you - when you've been out in the fresh air, and that perfume you put behind your ears sometimes. Believe it or not, I even love your road smell - of sweat and horses and leather and wool. I want to breathe you in for the rest of my life. love raisa Cinda Williams Chima
5c214d2 the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other's truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love. relationships love truth gender-stereotypes bell hooks
8db28b2 "He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they'd met, when he'd understood that the prince was his brother in soul. "I love you." friends friendship love chaol dorian chaol-westfall throne-of-glass dorian-havilliard heir-of-fire sarah-j-maas friendship-and-love Sarah J. Maas
1e9857f Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will. love truth inspirational V.C. Andrews
d95936b My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer. love Paulo Coelho
4730e5b What you are to do without me I cannot imagine. loss love leaving George Bernard Shaw
8093d0e My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go. My heart... not so much. heart love Simone Elkeles
689a2bb I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. death-and-dying love death-of-a-loved-one mother Mitch Albom
e539357 Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise... love politeness fire Emma Thompson
cfd6e2d A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. men women love maltreatment mistreatment sherlock-holmes separation Arthur Conan Doyle
00dcb3f if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people. hate love Jerry Spinelli
bc8556f "Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." ... It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude." friendship love companionship C.S. Lewis
e01207e Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me. Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing. Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man's shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person's truth, adore every person's God, protect every person's rights, preserve every person's dignity, promote every person's interests, provide every person's needs, presume every person's holiness, present every person's greatest gifts, produce every person's blessing, pronounce every person's future secure in the assured love of God. Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast. Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention. Speak gently, that all might know of Love. Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide. Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken. Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored. Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal. Speak of Me with every utterance. Make of your life a gift. Remember always, you are the gift! Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift--yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.) When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you...I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS. world god love truth inspirational speak peace Neale Donald Walsch
d4a47da "After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us." love Charles Bukowski
adf2ae1 "Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." love immaturity maturity need Erich Fromm
ad607e0 No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. relationships life love domination Chuck Palahniuk
2ad9cb2 "I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours." love hathaways devotion leo Lisa Kleypas
8ee9b22 Your inner strength is your outer foundation upliftment motivation love inspirational spiritual-growth personal-growth personal-development self-discovery realization self quotes peace self-help Allan Rufus
4097cd1 I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack. relationships love Chuck Klosterman
b9cd75a "How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other." life love obey vows jaime-lannister knight protect respect king George R.R. Martin
f22b870 Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. madness love William Shakespeare
b2b248c Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart. magic love thomas-raith Jim Butcher
270e514 regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. poem poetry death life love truth regret regrets Charles Bukowski
f7f0067 ... it's a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return. love-story true-love romance love inspirational inspirational-romance catholic-author inspirational-love blessings falling-in-love E.A. Bucchianeri
7183fdc I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask. And it seemed so easy, once he capitulated. It seemed natural and right. Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces. passion love merripen soulmates win longing Lisa Kleypas
bab2ff3 After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy. men women love Orhan Pamuk
61b0812 To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much. love Diana Wynne Jones
0809204 Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? love inspirational atlas-shrugged objectivism achievement admiration Ayn Rand
0da1bc3 What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior. love desires wants Jodi Picoult
e39c216 She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness. love Jonathan Safran Foer
fc2edc3 Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others--that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human--that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay--that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live--that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road--that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up--that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction. morality work life love productivity intellect loyalty Ayn Rand
8955c96 All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness. loneliness love Juliet Marillier
e1b7ca5 Andaikata semua kehidupan ini menyakitkan, maka di luar sana pasti masih ada sepotong bagian yang menyenangkan. Kemudian kau akan membenak pasti ada sesuatu yang jauh lebih indah dari menatap rembulan di langit. Kau tidak tahu apa itu, karna ilmumu terbatas. Kau hanya yakin , bila tidak di kehidupan ini suatu saat nanti pasti akan ada yang lebih mempesona dibanding menatap sepotong rembulan yang sedang bersinar indah. love inspirational Tere Liye
bd74fed We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love. religion love David Mitchell
2c0f511 "I found him carefully studying me, his lips in a thin line. "Has anyone ever taken care of you?" he asked quietly. "No." I'd long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it." love tamlin taking-care protection Sarah J. Maas
7c5afc1 But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. love indifference unrequited-love Gabriel García Márquez
e486828 A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. love science-fiction Ursula K. Le Guin
8c48ab4 "He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked. - "Nothing" he said. - "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything." I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-" - "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman." - "Never seen it." lover lovers silence life love real-life awkward flirt gorgeous looking-at-me natalie-portman turn-me-on vendetta john-green boy the-fault-in-our-stars real girl smile smiling beautiful hazel John Green The Fault in Our Stars
031ee46 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1-corinthians-13 faith love inspirational scripture Anonymous
9b08270 The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic. love Maria V. Snyder
655b3cf He is the cheese to my macaroni. love Diablo Cody
2caeb25 The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. pain loss risk love saftey security practice force hurt Bell Hooks
324236c I would like to be able to breathe-- to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely. pain heart love albert-camus camus Albert Camus
a588452 "What sexual preference do you hope she has?" "Happiness." Isnt that cool?" love sexual-preference weetzie-bat Francesca Lia Block
971c635 The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to. love Jodi Picoult
e6a51dd Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of. feelings learning humor education life love truth inspirational expression Jason Mraz
161bfa9 Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door. love Paulo Coelho
c94d82d "Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?" Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment. "No" I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. "Tell me." "I can't." romance love hideous-beauty Holly Black
4580041 It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. heart love Nathaniel Hawthorne
f2c732c He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. marriage love eugenides royalty Megan Whalen Turner
3a21875 It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I'd envision his face. love Anne Rice
bc56f55 I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole. love genes tobias-eaton fourtris tris-prior belief wholeness Veronica Roth
e82a72d "You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you're as blind as a mole, you're a deplorable poet, and frankly, your French accent could use some work." Supporting himself on his elbows, Leo took her face in his hands. "But when I put those things together with the rest of you, it makes you into the most perfectly imperfect woman I've ever known." love lisa-kleypas Lisa Kleypas
b65d474 "That I shall love always, I argue thee love Emily Dickinson
7c67463 Love, that moves the sun and the other stars love sun Dante Alighieri
41dedd0 The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, "This is love." God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, "This is love. passion world romance jesus god love inspirational cross christian christ Joshua Harris
9c86f73 I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me. light love Ursula K. Le Guin
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