There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I’m nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that’s all I’ll be–one big scar of a love gone wrong.
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.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
It’s true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.
Tomorrow’s not promised. You may love someone; you may have a grudge because of something that they did to you, and it was unfair, but life’s not fair. Life is very short, so clean up your grudges. Let’s not hold them.
Love…no such thing.
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that’s not love. That’s stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn’t exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.
Are you asking me to undress, Tris?’
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. ‘Only … partially
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.
He suddenly recalled from Plato’s Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Because you’re it, okay? I’m never gonna love anybody in the world like I love you.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.
I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.
I do not play football to win the Ballon d’Or. I play football to be happy, because I love it and want to play football.
The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
Lover? I don’t know. I don’t know if she loves me. I don’t know if I love her. All I can say is, she’s the one I think about. All the time. She’s the voice I want to hear. She’s the face I hope to see.
Love doesn’t mean anything if you’re not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you – that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.
…lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
I’ll tell you something, Harpy,” he said, his voice almost a whisper now. “It never even occurred to me that we wouldn’t make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.
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.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
You’re still the one I run to, the one that I belong to. You’re still the one I want for life.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?
Honestly, just all the love and respect from the fans, that’s always the biggest thing that puts a smile on my face.
True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart
True love – that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy – is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.
You are my joy and my laughter/You are the moon and you gave the stars light/You are my ever after/Forever love, the light of my life.
It is an historical fact that you and I have a problem doing the right thing, for others and for ourselves. Yet, we deny it fiercely or wallow in shame, neither of which God wants for us.
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.