"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Lisa Genova (Inside the O'Briens)
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)
"I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred Tennyson (In Memoriam)
"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets)
"You
are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I
enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life
together."
— Nicholas
Sparks (The Notebook (The Notebook, #1))
"Perhaps
one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
— George
Orwell (1984)
"Love
is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your
own."
— Robert A.
Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)
"We
accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen
Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
"Love
is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."
— Nicholas
Sparks (A Walk to Remember)
"It is
better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
not."
— André
Gide (Autumn Leaves)
"Have
you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens
your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside
you and mess you up."
"I
love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply,
without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any
other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that
your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your
eyes close."
— Pablo
Neruda (100 Love Sonnets)
"As he
read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at
once."
— John
Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
"There
is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a
heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah
Dessen (The Truth About Forever)
"If
you judge people you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa"
— Inglath
Cooper (Crossing Tinker's Knob)
"You
love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him,
"Real."
— Suzanne
Collins (Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3))
"All
you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
"Love
looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And
therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
— William
Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
"When
you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them
to be."
— Josiah
Hartley (The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey)
"They
say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone
to love, something to do, and something to hope for. —Tom Bodett"
— Marie
Force (It's Only Love (Green Mountain #5))
"I
have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear."
— Martin
Luther King Jr. (A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches)
"I
might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until
I'm sure to tell you, though."
— Veronica
Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
"I
heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the
heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those
things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and
wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved."
"The
more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man
whom I can really love. I require so much!"
— Jane
Austen (Sense and Sensibility)
"Some
people care too much. I think it's called love."
— A.A.
Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1))
"The
thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi is said to have written, “Your task is not to
seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it."
— Robert
Wright (Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and
Enlightenment)
"Once
upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question
he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
— Nicole
Krauss (The History of Love)
"Doubt
thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that
the sun doth move;
Doubt truth
to be a liar;
But never
doubt I love."
— William
Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"13th-century Persian poet Rumi once wrote, “Your
task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it."
— Habib Sadeghi (The
Clarity Cleanse: 12 Steps to Finding Renewed Energy, Spiritual Fulfillment, and
Emotional Healing)
"Every
heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a
song. At the touch of a lover, everyone
becomes a poet." -Plato"
— Genna
Rulon (Pieces for You (For You, #2))
"You
can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've
got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes
to protect the ones you love."
— Richelle
Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))
"Where
there is love there is life"
— Mahatma
Gandhi (All Men Are Brothers)
"For
attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely
eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim
figure, share your food with the hungry.
For
beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise,
walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
— Sam
Levenson (In One Era & Out the Other)
"i
carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)"
— E.E.
Cummings (Selected Poems)
"I
carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it
(anywhere
I go you
go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
"Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
— Anonymous
(Holy Bible: New International Version)
"Love
is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because
they somehow complete you."
— Sarah
Dessen (This Lullaby)
"Perhaps
all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act,
just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in
its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
— Rainer
Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)
"I
would die for you. But I won't live for you."
— Stephen
Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
"We
love the things we love for what they are."
"Sometimes
you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them
any less. Sometimes you love them more."
— Nicholas
Sparks (The Last Song)
"In
vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You
must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
— Jane
Austen (Pride And Prejudice)
"When
I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have
always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can
seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
— Mahatma
Gandhi
"One
is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo
Coelho (The Alchemist)
"I no
longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was
beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you
might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect,
or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way
that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."
— Lisa
Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil (Travises, #2))
"When
we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to
become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
— Paulo
Coelho (The Alchemist)
"So
it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work
at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you,
forever, everyday. You and me... everyday."
— Nicholas
Sparks (The Notebook)
"A
lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love
to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane
Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
"I am
good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small
girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."
"When
someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and
comfortable."
— Jess C.
Scott (The Intern)
The real
lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into
your eyes or just staring into space.
"The
real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling
into your eyes or just staring into space."
"There
is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and
I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you
then."
— Cassandra
Clare (City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3))
"If I
had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden
forever."
"We’re
all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose
weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually
satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love."
— Robert
Fulghum (True Love)
You've
gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing
like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.
You've
gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like
you'll never be hurt,
Sing like
there's nobody listening,
And live
like it's heaven on earth.
"You've
gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like
you'll never be hurt,
Sing like
there's nobody listening,
And live
like it's heaven on earth."
"Love
never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its
source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and
wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Ramani
Durvasula (Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a
Narcissist)
"People
think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a
true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding
you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change
your life.
A true soul
mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear
down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah.
Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer
of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul
mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you
your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in,
make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life,
then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
— Elizabeth
Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"There
is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion
of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)