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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. The Sirens of Titan
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
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. The Illuminated Rumi
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you. The Alchemist
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 only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
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 know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. A Walk to Remember
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. All's Well That Ends Well
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. The Truth About Forever
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Stranger in a Strange Land
We love the things we love for what they are.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
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.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. A Midsummer Night's Dream
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
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. True Love
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. My Sister's Keeper
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. The Four Loves
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. Holy Bible: New International Version
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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.
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. The Notebook
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! Sense And Sensibility
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Where there is love there is life.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. The Alchemist
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Holy Bible: King James Version
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.
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Hamlet
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.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. The Alchemist
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters. Al Pacino
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. The Fault in Our Stars
The heart was made to be broken.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. Hamlet
He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
When love is not madness it is not love.
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away. The Notebook
I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. The Conquest of Happiness
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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. The Alchemist
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. An Autobiography
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
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.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Look after my heart - I've left it with you. Eclipse
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. Sex and the City
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong. South of the Border, West of the Sun
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. The Lathe of Heaven
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long. Love: Ten Poems
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. An Ideal Husband
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. The Brothers Karamazov
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times. For One More Day
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. Anna and the French Kiss
I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Love is a better master than duty.
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.
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness. The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision. The Art of Loving
You are like nobody since I love you.
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. A Room of One's Own
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. The Devil and Miss Prym
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. The Princess Bride
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. Eleven Minutes
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you. The Witches
Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). The Unbearable Lightness of Being
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth. For One More Day
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. The Princess Bride
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. The Count of Monte Cristo
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. Man and Superman
The course of true love never did run smooth. A Midsummer Night's Dream
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. Eleven Minutes
Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction. Airman's Odyssey: Night Flight/Wind Sand & Stars/Flight to Arras
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. Anna Karenina
"People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose." The Little Prince
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. Orlando
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. The Selected Poetry
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow.
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. The Diaries of Adam & Eve
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. Of Human Bondage
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. Living Buddha, Living Christ
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Stranger in a Strange Land
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world. The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode. The Painted Veil
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. Lay Morals
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. The Moon and Sixpence
One day spent with someone you love can change everything. For One More Day
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. My Father's Tears and Other Stories
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers... The Little Prince
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart. Meditations
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Love wins, love always wins. Tuesdays with Morrie
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." Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Love is a serious mental disease.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. The Painted Veil
Sweets to the sweet. Hamlet
First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. The Little Prince
Work without love is slavery.
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. Notebook
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. Romeo and Juliet
A loveless world is a dead world.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love. Teachings on Love
Without love we all like birds with broken wings.
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. Cosmos
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love An Ideal Husband
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. Anna Karenina
I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
It's hard to love a woman and do anything. Anna Karenina
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise. Notes from Underground
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Love, and you shall be loved.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love. My Story
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. War and Peace
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. The Painted Veil
Love those you hate you. Anna Karenina
We are asleep until we fall in Love! War and Peace
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. Romeo and Juliet
I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you. Sweet Wind, Wild Wind
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness... War and Peace
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love
Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
What barrier is there that love cannot break? The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. The Magic Mountain
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact. The Importance of Being Earnest
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. Medea and Other Plays