Love.
This is going to be long. It's quotes about love that I've acquired over a damn long time and it stretches to 12 pages in Microsoft Word. It's not just for romantics or anything like that. Seriously, sometimes I just read it cos it just lifts my mood. So, now I'll share it. You can read it or not.
Entry kept public, too.
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
--Janos Arnay
"... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me."
--Gretchen Kemp
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”
-- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
"You're nothing short of my everything."
--Ralph Block
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."
--Robert Browning
"I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you."
--Roy Croft
"I love her and that's the beginning of everything."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
--Robert Heinlein
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven."
--Victor Hugo
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
--Mignon McLaughlin
"I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."
--Vita Sackville-West
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart."
--Robert Sexton
"Love is friendship set on fire."
--Jeremy Taylor
"Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again."
--Unknown
"To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."
--Unknown
"Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet."
--Unknown
"The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life."
--Sir Hugh Walpole
"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss."
--Unknown
"Love doesn't make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
--Elizabeth Browning
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love."
--Sophocles
"Hope guides me. It is what gets me through the day and especially the night. Hope that after you are gone from my sight, it will not be the last time I look upon you."
--A Knight's Tale
“I believe there's a place where the restless souls wander, burdened by the weight of their own sadness. They wait for a chance to set the wrong things right. Only then can they be reunited with the ones they love. Sometimes, a crow shows them the way; because sometimes, love is stronger than death.”
--City of Angels
"Poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for."
--Dead Poet's Society
“I always thought that there was this one perfect person for everybody in the world, you know, and when you found that person the rest of the world kind of magically faded away, and, you know, the two of you would just be inside this kind of protective bubble, but there is no bubble, I mean if there is you have to make it, I just think life is more than a series of moments, you know, we can make choices, and we can choose to protect the people we love, and that's what makes us who we are and those are the real memories.”
--Forces of Nature
“When you love someone, and you love them with your heart, it never disappears when you're apart. And when you love someone and you've done all you can do, you set them free, and if that love was true.... when you love someone it will all come back to you…”
--Forget Paris
“Sometimes I wish I had never met you. Because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.”
--Good Will Hunting
"You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting."
--Hook
"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? I say fall head over heels. Find someone you love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart."
--Meet Joe Black
"Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going."
--Practical Magic
“I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
--When Harry Met Sally
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
--Annie
"I love you. And not, not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. I love you. Very, very simple, very truly. You are the epitome of everything I have ever looked for in another human being. And I know that you think of me as just a friend, and crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you would ever consider. But I had to say it. I just, I can't take this anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't, I can't look into your eyes without feeling that, that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are..."
--Chasing Amy
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
--Unknown
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
--Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
--Stephen Levine
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.”
--Emmet Fox
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
--Mahatma Gandhi
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
--George Moore
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
--Plato
“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder'd at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr'd for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.”
--John Keats
“I love you - those three words have my life in them.”
--Unknown
“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
--Anonymous
“Once in a while, in an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”
--Anonymous
“You love simply because you cannot help it.”
--Kim Anderson
“True love doesn’t have a happy ending; true love doesn’t have an ending.”
--Anonymous
“It’s always been us.”
--Anonymous
“You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful; she is beautiful because you love her.” --Anonymous
“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.”
--Mark Twain
“A part of you has grown in me, and so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.”
--Anonymous
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.”
--O. A. Battista
“The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.”
--Michelle Hammersley
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
--Maulana Jalalu’ddin Rumi
“There's an odd air in airports that I've never noticed before yesterday. Perhaps because I was already upset, it struck me. Airports have this quality of suspended life - while we are here, we are non-existent. We partially exist, I suppose, as tickets and numbers and security risks. We exist as voices in cell phones, a promise of being home in time for dinner or a birthday or to kiss the kids goodnight. But beyond that, we are suspended, waiting. We are neither here nor there; we are in travel limbo, not where we're coming from, not where we're going to.”
--Marie Cecilie Stern-Peltz
“I hate the end - I hate the way seeing [her] go up the airport stairs makes me cry, I hate how her eyes are puffy when she leaves, I hate having to hug her, kiss her and know it's the last time in months I get to do so - the goodbyes kill me, but I wouldn't give it up for anything. Anything.”
--Marie Cecilie Stern-Peltz
“There are millions of people in this world, but in the end, it all comes down to one.”
--Crazy/Beautiful
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think of the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the twin towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. And if you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion that love actually is all around.”
--Love Actually
“All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone to make us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone perfect is searching for us.”
--The Wonder Years
“You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.”
--Clerks
“This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.”
--Clint Eastwood
"And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star. And when the night winds start to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky. Somewhere out there, if love can see us through then, we'll be together.”
--An American Tale
"There is nothing sadder in this life than to watch someone you love walk away. To watch the distance between your two bodies expand until there is nothing left but empty space... and silence."
--Someone like You
"I know what it does to you, I know. Maybe that's why we hold on as hard as we do. We just can't believe that such a miracle can happen to us twice. But it can, someday you'll find it again."
--Someone like You
“Some of the best things in life are total mistakes.”
--Paycheck
“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.” --Pablo Neruda
“God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.”
--J. M. Barrie
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”
--Henry Van Dyke
“Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
--Richard Bach
“Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.”
--Augusta E. Rundell
“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
“Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”
--Princess Diana
“Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.”
--Princess Diana
“And 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.”
--Colin Raye
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
--Kahlil Gibran
“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”
--Albert Einstein
“However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a receptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.” --Jeanette Winterson
“Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
--Rose Walker
“He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.”
--Elbert Hubbard
“If you have it, you don’t need anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.”
--James M. Barrie
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang onto that love.”
--Princess Diana
“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.
“I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.”
--Kyle Schmidt
“Missing someone is the kind of hurt a heart should be thankful to feel.”
--Anonymous
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, that myth is more potent than history, that dreams are more powerful than facts, that hope always triumphs over experience, that laughter is the only cure for grief, and I believe that love is stronger than death."
--Robert Fulghum
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.”
--Calvin and Hobbes
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
--Herman Hesse
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.”
--Victor Hugo
“I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.”
--Anonymous
“There is one pain I feel often, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.” --Anonymous
“I miss you when I’m sad. I miss you when I’m lonely. But most of all, I miss you when I’m happy.”
--Anonymous
“No road is far if it leads to you.”
--Anonymous
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."
--Gilbert Parker
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
--J. R. Tolkien
“There is one friend in the life of each of us, who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”
--Edith Wharton
♥.
Entry kept public, too.
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
--Janos Arnay
"... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me."
--Gretchen Kemp
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”
-- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
"You're nothing short of my everything."
--Ralph Block
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."
--Robert Browning
"I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you."
--Roy Croft
"I love her and that's the beginning of everything."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
--Robert Heinlein
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven."
--Victor Hugo
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
--Mignon McLaughlin
"I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."
--Vita Sackville-West
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart."
--Robert Sexton
"Love is friendship set on fire."
--Jeremy Taylor
"Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again."
--Unknown
"To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."
--Unknown
"Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet."
--Unknown
"The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life."
--Sir Hugh Walpole
"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss."
--Unknown
"Love doesn't make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
--Elizabeth Browning
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love."
--Sophocles
"Hope guides me. It is what gets me through the day and especially the night. Hope that after you are gone from my sight, it will not be the last time I look upon you."
--A Knight's Tale
“I believe there's a place where the restless souls wander, burdened by the weight of their own sadness. They wait for a chance to set the wrong things right. Only then can they be reunited with the ones they love. Sometimes, a crow shows them the way; because sometimes, love is stronger than death.”
--City of Angels
"Poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for."
--Dead Poet's Society
“I always thought that there was this one perfect person for everybody in the world, you know, and when you found that person the rest of the world kind of magically faded away, and, you know, the two of you would just be inside this kind of protective bubble, but there is no bubble, I mean if there is you have to make it, I just think life is more than a series of moments, you know, we can make choices, and we can choose to protect the people we love, and that's what makes us who we are and those are the real memories.”
--Forces of Nature
“When you love someone, and you love them with your heart, it never disappears when you're apart. And when you love someone and you've done all you can do, you set them free, and if that love was true.... when you love someone it will all come back to you…”
--Forget Paris
“Sometimes I wish I had never met you. Because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.”
--Good Will Hunting
"You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting."
--Hook
"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? I say fall head over heels. Find someone you love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart."
--Meet Joe Black
"Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going."
--Practical Magic
“I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
--When Harry Met Sally
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
--Annie
"I love you. And not, not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. I love you. Very, very simple, very truly. You are the epitome of everything I have ever looked for in another human being. And I know that you think of me as just a friend, and crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you would ever consider. But I had to say it. I just, I can't take this anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't, I can't look into your eyes without feeling that, that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are..."
--Chasing Amy
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
--Unknown
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
--Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
--Stephen Levine
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.”
--Emmet Fox
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
--Mahatma Gandhi
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
--George Moore
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
--Plato
“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder'd at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr'd for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.”
--John Keats
“I love you - those three words have my life in them.”
--Unknown
“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
--Anonymous
“Once in a while, in an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”
--Anonymous
“You love simply because you cannot help it.”
--Kim Anderson
“True love doesn’t have a happy ending; true love doesn’t have an ending.”
--Anonymous
“It’s always been us.”
--Anonymous
“You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful; she is beautiful because you love her.” --Anonymous
“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.”
--Mark Twain
“A part of you has grown in me, and so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.”
--Anonymous
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.”
--O. A. Battista
“The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them.”
--Michelle Hammersley
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
--Maulana Jalalu’ddin Rumi
“There's an odd air in airports that I've never noticed before yesterday. Perhaps because I was already upset, it struck me. Airports have this quality of suspended life - while we are here, we are non-existent. We partially exist, I suppose, as tickets and numbers and security risks. We exist as voices in cell phones, a promise of being home in time for dinner or a birthday or to kiss the kids goodnight. But beyond that, we are suspended, waiting. We are neither here nor there; we are in travel limbo, not where we're coming from, not where we're going to.”
--Marie Cecilie Stern-Peltz
“I hate the end - I hate the way seeing [her] go up the airport stairs makes me cry, I hate how her eyes are puffy when she leaves, I hate having to hug her, kiss her and know it's the last time in months I get to do so - the goodbyes kill me, but I wouldn't give it up for anything. Anything.”
--Marie Cecilie Stern-Peltz
“There are millions of people in this world, but in the end, it all comes down to one.”
--Crazy/Beautiful
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think of the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the twin towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. And if you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion that love actually is all around.”
--Love Actually
“All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone to make us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone perfect is searching for us.”
--The Wonder Years
“You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.”
--Clerks
“This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.”
--Clint Eastwood
"And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star. And when the night winds start to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky. Somewhere out there, if love can see us through then, we'll be together.”
--An American Tale
"There is nothing sadder in this life than to watch someone you love walk away. To watch the distance between your two bodies expand until there is nothing left but empty space... and silence."
--Someone like You
"I know what it does to you, I know. Maybe that's why we hold on as hard as we do. We just can't believe that such a miracle can happen to us twice. But it can, someday you'll find it again."
--Someone like You
“Some of the best things in life are total mistakes.”
--Paycheck
“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.” --Pablo Neruda
“God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.”
--J. M. Barrie
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”
--Henry Van Dyke
“Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
--Richard Bach
“Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.”
--Augusta E. Rundell
“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
“Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”
--Princess Diana
“Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.”
--Princess Diana
“And 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.”
--Colin Raye
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
--Kahlil Gibran
“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”
--Albert Einstein
“However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a receptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.” --Jeanette Winterson
“Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
--Rose Walker
“He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.”
--Elbert Hubbard
“If you have it, you don’t need anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.”
--James M. Barrie
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang onto that love.”
--Princess Diana
“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.
“I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.”
--Kyle Schmidt
“Missing someone is the kind of hurt a heart should be thankful to feel.”
--Anonymous
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, that myth is more potent than history, that dreams are more powerful than facts, that hope always triumphs over experience, that laughter is the only cure for grief, and I believe that love is stronger than death."
--Robert Fulghum
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.”
--Calvin and Hobbes
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
--Herman Hesse
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.”
--Victor Hugo
“I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.”
--Anonymous
“There is one pain I feel often, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.” --Anonymous
“I miss you when I’m sad. I miss you when I’m lonely. But most of all, I miss you when I’m happy.”
--Anonymous
“No road is far if it leads to you.”
--Anonymous
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."
--Gilbert Parker
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
--J. R. Tolkien
“There is one friend in the life of each of us, who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”
--Edith Wharton
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