"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." - Pearl Bailey
abarero was taking drabble request, and upon reading my book of quotes, I discovered quite a few lines befitting of many pairings. I don't know how many people beside me absolutely adore quotes, but I'm thinking someone's out there.
America/Taiwan:
Provided by bedlamsongbird: “When a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way” - Jane Austen
America/England:
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." - Thomas Fuller
Provided by chappuholic : "Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her..." - Unknown
"The couple that fights the most is the one most in love... it shows they care enough to notice the other one screwed up and care enough to mention it to the person so they can fix it. When you stop fighting it means you stopped caring." - Shawna Waltemyer
"This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love." - Unknown
"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you." - Colin Raye
"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." - Rose Franker
"When I saw you I was afraid to meet you. When I met you I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you." - Unknown
"Live the life you've dreamed." - Henry David Thoreau
"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." - Unknown
"The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most." - kati tgj
"You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love." - Brian Ferry
Provided by faintdoodles : "When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with." - John Scalzi
Provided by noobcomplex : "You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you let him try to take care of himself. he will make mistakes; & out of these mistakes will come his wisdom." - Henry Ward Beecher
America/Canada
Provided by
noobcomplex : "A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self." - Marian Sandmaier
"Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long." - Susan Scarf Merrell
America/Japan:
Provided by faintdoodles : "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
Provided by noobcomplex : "The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love." - Bryant Gumbel
America/Lithuania:
Provided by x0whitelily0x :"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." - Unknown
"The best love affairs are those we never had." - Unknown
"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"' - Unknown
America/Vietnam:
Provided by noobcomplex : "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it." - Mark Twain
America/Taiwan:
Provided by bedlamsongbird : “When a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way” - Jane Austen
Austria/Hungary:
"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it - you and you alone make me feel that I am alive - Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." - George Moore
"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life." - Joseph Addison
Provided by x0whitelily0x : "Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle." - Unknown
"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her." - Mark Twain
Austria/Hungary/Prussia:
Provided by disownmereturns : "Vows can't change nature, priests are only men. And love like stratagem and subterfuge." - Robert Browning
Austria/Switzerland:
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love is the business of the idle and the idleness of the busy." - EG Bulwerlytton
Canada/Ukraine:
Provided by noobcomplex : "Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little." - Hannah Moore
Cuba/Canada:
"The first duty of love - is to listen." - Paul Johannes Tillich
Provided by disownmereturns : "Nothing could bring more contentment than seeing the love in your smile and knowing that smile is for me." - Edward Cunningham
Denmark/Sweden:
Provided by disownmereturns : "Two people are more likely to fall in love if their sex drives are evenly matched." - Bernard I. Murstein
England/Japan
“So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Provided by
faintdoodles : "When two souls, that have shed their loneliness, embrace and melt into one; from out of loneliness, love is born." - Mori Yuriko
France/America:
Provided by jinsai : “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see. You hang around cafés.” - Ernest Hemingway
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.” - Gertrude Stein
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
France/England:
"It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea." - Dylan Thomas
Provided by disownmereturns : "The art of love is largely the art of persistence" - Dr. Albert Ellis
"For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love." - John Donne
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea." - Henry Fielding
France/Seychelles:
"Let the world stop turning, Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you." - Bette Midler
Provided by noobcomplex : "He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him." - Henry Fielding, Jonathan Wild, book 3
France/Vietnam:
Provided by noobcomplex : "There is no love sincerer than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw
Germany/N.Italy:
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope." - Maya Angelou
Provided by disownmereturns : "I have earned the right to love you, not simply because I have loved no other, but because I have taken what is best of you and made it a part of me." - Lois Wyse
Greece/Japan:
“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.” - Joseph Addison
Greece
Provided by noobcomplex : "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
HRE/Italy:
Provided by faintdoodles: "Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew." - Unknown
Japan/Taiwan:
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable." - Victor Hugo
Korea/China:
“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” -Mark Twain
Liechtenstein/Switzerland:
"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Lithuania/Belarus:
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." - Bible, 1 John 4:18
Poland/Lithuania:
"But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning." - Sir Walter Raleigh
Provided by alvanista :
"True! True!" answered Gerwazy, much moved, "We've all seen
How most strange have the fortunes of our Kingdom been,
And of our Lithuania! They're like man and wife!
God unites, devil parts; God and devil in strife! - Adam Mickiewicz
"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness." Ellen Goodman
"True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When I don't see you, I do not sigh nor cry
My faculties and senses do not go awry;
Yet when you are not here for an hour or two,
Someone seems missing, and that someone is you.
And the heart below asks the mind above:
Is this friendship, or is this love?" Adam Mickiewicz
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." Carl Jung
Provided by disownmereturns : "Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin." - Anatole France
Provided by x0whitelily0x : "We need not think alike to love alike." - Unknown
"All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Unknown
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Unknown
Prussia/Germany:
"Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever." - Leo F. Buscaglia
Provided by disownmereturns : "The seat of love is not the heart; it is the liver. So it would be scientifically correct to proclaim..."I love you from the bottom of my liver." - Ripley
Prussia/Hungary:
Provided by noobcomplex : "Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again; skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. - Anonymous
Provided by pumpkinguitar : “The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.” - William Somerset Maugham
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” - Mother Theresa
“One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.” - Anonymous
“Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.” - Unknown
“You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time.” - Unknown
Rome/Germania:
Provided by disownmereturns : "What we suffered from was love...and more of it would have killed us." - Merrit Malloy
Rome/England, Spain, France:
Provided by noobcomplex : "The killer in me is killer in you." - Smashing Pumpkins
Russa/all:
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love is merely madness; and I tell you, deserves as well a darkhouse and a whip, as madman do; and the reason why they are not punished and cured, is that the lunacy is so ordinary, that the whippers are in love too." - Shakespeare
"What's love or affection, but the power we give another to torment us?" - Edward Bulwet Ly
Provided by faintdoodles : "I self destruct every relationship so that I don't get hurt... but in truth I just hurt myself worse in the long run." - Anonymous
Russia/America:
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve." - Joan Borysenko
Russia/Belarus:
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Russia/China:
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford
Russia/Lithuania
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.” - James Arthur Baldwin
Provided by taure : "Maybe if I share the path I walk then a little more of your pain will vanish. I want you to heal, whoever you are. I don't care what pain you've brought the world, I just want yours to subside. No matter what, your path is yours. Dont follow misery or worry. Devote every moment of your life to improving your dreams. Love your world. Cherish the good you do. Let go of hatred. Dream of love, because I love you.” - Unknown
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love is walking through a garden together and knowing we'll never see roses again without seeing each other." - Edward Cunningham
Provided by wingedchopstick : "The basis of Optimism is sheer terror" -Wilde
"I hope you're not leading a double life, pretending to be wicked while being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. " Cecily, Act II , Wilde
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure, and never simple" - Wilde
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. " -Wilde
"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?" -Bell Hooks
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. " -Unknown
Spain/S.Italy:
"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." - George Jean Nathan
Provided by faintdoodles : "Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." - Erica Jong
Provided by noobcomplex : "I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love." - Terri Guillemets
Sweden/Finland:
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation - We don't love to be loved; we love to love." - Leo F. Buscaglia
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love does not consist of gazing at each other but of looking outward together in the same direction" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." - Dinah Shore
"What is intimidating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice." - Pierre Charles Baudelaire
Turkey/Greece
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle. Love is a war. Love is a growing up." - James Baldwin
If there are any pairings you want but don't see, or if you know any quotes that would befit any pairing, please tell me, and I'd be honored glad to keep them in mind and update!
America/Taiwan:
Provided by bedlamsongbird: “When a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way” - Jane Austen
America/England:
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." - Thomas Fuller
Provided by chappuholic : "Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her..." - Unknown
"The couple that fights the most is the one most in love... it shows they care enough to notice the other one screwed up and care enough to mention it to the person so they can fix it. When you stop fighting it means you stopped caring." - Shawna Waltemyer
"This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love." - Unknown
"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you." - Colin Raye
"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." - Rose Franker
"When I saw you I was afraid to meet you. When I met you I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you." - Unknown
"Live the life you've dreamed." - Henry David Thoreau
"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." - Unknown
"The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most." - kati tgj
"You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love." - Brian Ferry
Provided by faintdoodles : "When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with." - John Scalzi
Provided by noobcomplex : "You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you let him try to take care of himself. he will make mistakes; & out of these mistakes will come his wisdom." - Henry Ward Beecher
America/Canada
Provided by
noobcomplex : "A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self." - Marian Sandmaier
"Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long." - Susan Scarf Merrell
America/Japan:
Provided by faintdoodles : "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
Provided by noobcomplex : "The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love." - Bryant Gumbel
America/Lithuania:
Provided by x0whitelily0x :"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." - Unknown
"The best love affairs are those we never had." - Unknown
"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"' - Unknown
America/Vietnam:
Provided by noobcomplex : "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it." - Mark Twain
America/Taiwan:
Provided by bedlamsongbird : “When a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way” - Jane Austen
Austria/Hungary:
"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it - you and you alone make me feel that I am alive - Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." - George Moore
"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life." - Joseph Addison
Provided by x0whitelily0x : "Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle." - Unknown
"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her." - Mark Twain
Austria/Hungary/Prussia:
Provided by disownmereturns : "Vows can't change nature, priests are only men. And love like stratagem and subterfuge." - Robert Browning
Austria/Switzerland:
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love is the business of the idle and the idleness of the busy." - EG Bulwerlytton
Canada/Ukraine:
Provided by noobcomplex : "Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little." - Hannah Moore
Cuba/Canada:
"The first duty of love - is to listen." - Paul Johannes Tillich
Provided by disownmereturns : "Nothing could bring more contentment than seeing the love in your smile and knowing that smile is for me." - Edward Cunningham
Denmark/Sweden:
Provided by disownmereturns : "Two people are more likely to fall in love if their sex drives are evenly matched." - Bernard I. Murstein
England/Japan
“So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Provided by
faintdoodles : "When two souls, that have shed their loneliness, embrace and melt into one; from out of loneliness, love is born." - Mori Yuriko
France/America:
Provided by jinsai : “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see. You hang around cafés.” - Ernest Hemingway
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.” - Gertrude Stein
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
France/England:
"It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea." - Dylan Thomas
Provided by disownmereturns : "The art of love is largely the art of persistence" - Dr. Albert Ellis
"For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love." - John Donne
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea." - Henry Fielding
France/Seychelles:
"Let the world stop turning, Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you." - Bette Midler
Provided by noobcomplex : "He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him." - Henry Fielding, Jonathan Wild, book 3
France/Vietnam:
Provided by noobcomplex : "There is no love sincerer than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw
Germany/N.Italy:
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope." - Maya Angelou
Provided by disownmereturns : "I have earned the right to love you, not simply because I have loved no other, but because I have taken what is best of you and made it a part of me." - Lois Wyse
Greece/Japan:
“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.” - Joseph Addison
Greece
Provided by noobcomplex : "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
HRE/Italy:
Provided by faintdoodles: "Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew." - Unknown
Japan/Taiwan:
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable." - Victor Hugo
Korea/China:
“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” -Mark Twain
Liechtenstein/Switzerland:
"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Lithuania/Belarus:
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." - Bible, 1 John 4:18
Poland/Lithuania:
"But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning." - Sir Walter Raleigh
Provided by alvanista :
"True! True!" answered Gerwazy, much moved, "We've all seen
How most strange have the fortunes of our Kingdom been,
And of our Lithuania! They're like man and wife!
God unites, devil parts; God and devil in strife! - Adam Mickiewicz
"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness." Ellen Goodman
"True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When I don't see you, I do not sigh nor cry
My faculties and senses do not go awry;
Yet when you are not here for an hour or two,
Someone seems missing, and that someone is you.
And the heart below asks the mind above:
Is this friendship, or is this love?" Adam Mickiewicz
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." Carl Jung
Provided by disownmereturns : "Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin." - Anatole France
Provided by x0whitelily0x : "We need not think alike to love alike." - Unknown
"All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Unknown
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Unknown
Prussia/Germany:
"Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever." - Leo F. Buscaglia
Provided by disownmereturns : "The seat of love is not the heart; it is the liver. So it would be scientifically correct to proclaim..."I love you from the bottom of my liver." - Ripley
Prussia/Hungary:
Provided by noobcomplex : "Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again; skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. - Anonymous
Provided by pumpkinguitar : “The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.” - William Somerset Maugham
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” - Mother Theresa
“One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.” - Anonymous
“Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.” - Unknown
“You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time.” - Unknown
Rome/Germania:
Provided by disownmereturns : "What we suffered from was love...and more of it would have killed us." - Merrit Malloy
Rome/England, Spain, France:
Provided by noobcomplex : "The killer in me is killer in you." - Smashing Pumpkins
Russa/all:
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love is merely madness; and I tell you, deserves as well a darkhouse and a whip, as madman do; and the reason why they are not punished and cured, is that the lunacy is so ordinary, that the whippers are in love too." - Shakespeare
"What's love or affection, but the power we give another to torment us?" - Edward Bulwet Ly
Provided by faintdoodles : "I self destruct every relationship so that I don't get hurt... but in truth I just hurt myself worse in the long run." - Anonymous
Russia/America:
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve." - Joan Borysenko
Russia/Belarus:
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Russia/China:
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford
Russia/Lithuania
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.” - James Arthur Baldwin
Provided by taure : "Maybe if I share the path I walk then a little more of your pain will vanish. I want you to heal, whoever you are. I don't care what pain you've brought the world, I just want yours to subside. No matter what, your path is yours. Dont follow misery or worry. Devote every moment of your life to improving your dreams. Love your world. Cherish the good you do. Let go of hatred. Dream of love, because I love you.” - Unknown
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love is walking through a garden together and knowing we'll never see roses again without seeing each other." - Edward Cunningham
Provided by wingedchopstick : "The basis of Optimism is sheer terror" -Wilde
"I hope you're not leading a double life, pretending to be wicked while being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. " Cecily, Act II , Wilde
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure, and never simple" - Wilde
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. " -Wilde
"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?" -Bell Hooks
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. " -Unknown
Spain/S.Italy:
"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." - George Jean Nathan
Provided by faintdoodles : "Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." - Erica Jong
Provided by noobcomplex : "I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love." - Terri Guillemets
Sweden/Finland:
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation - We don't love to be loved; we love to love." - Leo F. Buscaglia
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love does not consist of gazing at each other but of looking outward together in the same direction" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." - Dinah Shore
"What is intimidating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice." - Pierre Charles Baudelaire
Turkey/Greece
Provided by disownmereturns : "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle. Love is a war. Love is a growing up." - James Baldwin
If there are any pairings you want but don't see, or if you know any quotes that would befit any pairing, please tell me, and I'd be honored glad to keep them in mind and update!