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...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.	Jojo Moyes, Me Before You	friendship-and-love, heartbreak, life, love
Whatever happened to the dragon?"I mustered my primmest tone. "He has a name, you know."Adrian pulled back and gave me a curious look. "I didn't know, actually. What'd you decide on?""Hopper." When Adrian laughed, I added, "Best rabbit ever. He'd be proud to know his name is being passed on.""Yes, I'm sure he would. Did you name the Mustang too?""I think you mean the Ivashkinator."He stared at me in wonder. "I told you I loved you, right?"Yes," I assured him. "Many times.	Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell	adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines, cute, funny, humour, love, richelle-mead, romance, romantic, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-indigo-spell
I'm not married,” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.	Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass	love, marriage
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.	Jalaluddin Rumi	love
Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!	Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart	breakup, broken, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearted-quotes, dating, faith, healing, heartache, heartbreak, heartbroken, hope, hurt, hurt-feelings, hurting, hurting-heart, inspirational, life, life-lessons, love, romance
Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart	Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince	bridget, love, love-hurts
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.	Rita Mae Brown	gay, lesbian, lgbt, love, queer
You have my whole heart. You always did.	Cormac McCarthy, The Road	faithfulness, fidelity, love
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.	Mother Teresa	charity, christian-behavior, compassion, helping-others, love, paraphrased, service
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.	Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms	a-farewell-to-arms, ernest-hemingway, love
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.	Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice	affection, blindness, denial, folly, love, refusal, romance, vanity
You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.	Rachel Ward, Numbers	end, gone, goodbye, leaving, lost, love, pain
I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you.	Jalaluddin Rumi	love, lovers
Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?” Bones asked, getting back to the subject. “You to take me,” she replied at once. “Not gonna happen!” I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That’s when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand.	Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave	funny, love, vampire
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care	Emily Dickinson	love
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,Love is knowing I am everything,and between the two my life moves.	Nisargadatta Maharaj	life, love, wisdom
Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.	Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl	love, unrequited-love
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.	Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd	love
I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.	Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience	circumstance, distance, endure, inspirational, long-distance-love, love, power, relationships, soul-mates, true-love
Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.	Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.	hatred, love
I don't want to know about love.''But you should, my child. You need to know about love. The things people will do for love. All truths come down to love, do they not? One way or another, they do. See, there is a difference between love and need. Sometimes, what you feel is immediate and without rhyme or reason.' She sat up a little straighter. 'Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn’t need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it’s right or wrong.	Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood	love
He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was…I wanted the wolf to devour me.	Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse	love, romance
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.	Taylor Swift	heartbreak, love, realtionship
It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.	E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver	heartbreak, love, truth
You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.	Kelly White	inspirational, love, music
A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.	Alexandra Adornetto, Halo	love
When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can’t just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you’re ready for it.	Colleen Hoover, November 9	love
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw	Charles Bukowski	depression, facade, love, motherhood, pain
We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break.So that was that. We were finally, finally over.I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the same way again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.'I couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’dalways been. He’d never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever.Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.I looked at him, and I thought, 'If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.'I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back. But I wasn’t that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew anyway.'I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.'I was the one to look away first.	Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You	breakup, goodbye, inspirational, letting-go, love, release, romance
I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath.	Julie Kagawa, The Iron Knight	love
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.	Joseph Fort Newton	bigotry, bridges, compassion, culture, culture-wars, cultures, empathy, hate, hatred, inspirational, intolerance, love, men, misattributed, misattributed-to-isaac-newton, racism, separation, sympathy, tolerance, understanding, walls
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.	Sigmund Freud	love
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.	Rainbow Rowell, Attachments	life, love
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?	Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl	life, love, relationships
I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and hoped for. You are much, much more. Please know that I didn't think I was mean-minded. But I realize I am. I don't want you to put your arms around me and say it's all right, that you forgive me. I want you to be sure that you do, and my love for you will last as long as I live. I can see no lightness, no humour, no joke to make. I just hope that we will be able to go back to when we had laughter, and the world was coloured, not black and white and grey. I am so sorry for hurting you. I could inflict all kinds of pain on myself, but it would not take back any I gave to you. - David Power	Maeve Binchy, Echoes	forgiveness, love, romance, sorry
sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.	Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare	love, unrequited-love
I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better.	Robert Frost, Birches	brevity, love, nature, time, youth
Love me like you'll never see me again.	Alicia Keys	love, proposition
Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete.	Ally Condie, Crossed	beauty, love
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.	Shannon L. Alder	acceptance, adversity, best-friend, breakups, caring, child, cruelty, dad, dumped, endings, family, friendship, hurt, illness, love, mental-disorders, misunderstood-fights, mom, pain, rejection, sorrow, spouse, support, support-system, tough-times, trials, true-friendship
Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."“Why are they all high-calorie foods?	Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell	adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines, couple, cute, love, nicknames, richelle-mead, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-indigo-spell
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.	Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory	hopelessness, inspirational, life, love
I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.	Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence	love, romance
I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.	Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm	alina, feels, love, mal
He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.	Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell	adrian-ivashkov, flaws, love, realizations, sydney-sage
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.	Mark Twain, Notebook	love, romantic-advice
Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing.	Lauren Oliver, Requiem	choices, delirium, freedom, love
There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched.We separate.	James Frey, A Million Little Pieces	heart, love, people, soul
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.	Rainer Maria Rilke	loneliness, love
I want you to knowone thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.	Pablo Neruda, If You Forget Me	inspirational, love, poetry
I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again.""Tobias," I say, "I love you.	Veronica Roth, Insurgent	beatrice-prior, family, four, insurgent, love, tobias-and-tris, tobias-eaton, veronica-roth
Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.	Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender	love, perception
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.	Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	loss, love
I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me," he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.	Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer	love
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.	Jeanette Winterson	contradiction, heart, love
What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?""I love it." He says"Why?""Because we match.	Rainbow Rowell, Carry On	adorable, love, mess, romance
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.	James Baldwin	love
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.	Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass	breaking-up, breakups, dating, finding-yourself, fresh-starts, letting-go, love, loving-yourself, moving-on, new-beginnings, not-settling, positive-thinking, relationships, self-improvement, the-end, the-single-woman
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!	Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free	appreciation, gratitude, life, love, morning, seize-the-day, success
Before I fellin love with words,with setting skies and singing birds—it was you I fellin love with first.	Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure	love, romance
I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.	Amanda Grace, But I Love Him	hurt, love, romance, teen, ya
This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.	Colleen Hoover, Slammed	falling-in-love, flaws, love
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one	Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi	confusion, faith, inspirational, love
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.	Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile	beauty, blind, blindness, contemplation, inner-beauty, love, relationship, seeing, shallowness, thought-provoking, true-love, unconditional-love
You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.	Nina LaCour, Hold Still	friendship, love, reason, regret, suicide
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.	David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary	love
The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.	Tammara Webber, Easy	hurt, letting-go, love
It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it’s a delightful story.	Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady	desire, love, satisfaction
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.]	Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada	anger, generosity, goodness, inspirational, kindness, knowledge, love, truth, wisdom
When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.	Paulo Coelho, Brida	love, understanding
What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?	Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild	love
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.	Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest	humor, life, love, marriage
And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!	Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights	emily-bronte, love, pain, wuthering-heights
Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.	Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels	jace-wayland, love
What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.	Joseph Roux	friendship, love
I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you pass,The nonexistent carpet.And when you appearAll the rivers soundIn my body, bellsShake the sky,And a hymn fills the world.Only you and I,Only you and I, my love,Listen to it.	Pablo Neruda, Love Poems	love, poetry, romance
If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.	Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War	love, music, power-of-music
If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.	Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free	inspirational, life, love, relationship, self-knowledge, truth
Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.	Paulo Coelho	love
He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.' to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love.	Heather Dixon, Entwined	humor, love
People do the damndest things when they’re in love.	Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood	love
Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out.It is also not being able to remove the smile from your face, loving life with a mad passionate intensity, and feeling ten years younger.Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.	Jackie Collins, Lucky	falling, falling-in-love, love
You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts.	Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451	books, fahrenheit-451, knowledge, love, magic
Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.	Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.	absence, amazement, amazing, commas, editing, funny, god, humor, love, lover, relationships, sex, sex-god, transform, transformation, word-junkies, writer, writing
Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.	Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds	lee, liam, love, ruby
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?	Jodi Picoult, Mercy	bereavement, casket, death, funeral, heart, loss, love, mourning
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.	Yukio Mishima	beauty, cruelty, love
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.	Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets	love, passion, poetry, sonnet-xi
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.	Cornel West	justice, love, society, wisdom
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.	Jack Kerouac	love
My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.	Cassandra Clare, City of Bones	cassandra-clare, city-of-bones, entertainment, funny, humor, jace-wayland, love, mortal-instruments
And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross.	Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs	friendship, love, memory, music
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.	L.M. Montgomery	alone, hill, jane, lantern, love
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.	Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression	anger, depression, emotions, feelings, forgiveness, love, outrage
All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.	Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones	chaos, lost-love, love
Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.	Jessica Howell	hope, inspiration, love
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.	Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging	beloved, faith, god, identity, love, self
Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.	Alysha Speer	broken-heart, life, lonely, love, love-hurts, lover, memories, remember
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.	Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations	beauty, beauty-in-nature, inspirational, love, meditation, mind, mindfulness, nature, nature-s-beauty, pure-awareness, purifying, relaxation
Amor"So many days, oh so many daysseeing you so tangible and so close,how do I pay, with what do I pay?The bloodthirsty springhas awakened in the woods.The foxes start from their earths,the serpents drink the dew,and I go with you in the leavesbetween the pines and the silence,asking myself how and whenI will have to pay for my luck.Of everything I have seen,it's you I want to go on seeing:of everything I've touched,it's your flesh I want to go on touching.I love your orange laughter.I am moved by the sight of you sleeping.What am I to do, love, loved one?I don't know how others loveor how people loved in the past.I live, watching you, loving you.Being in love is my nature.You please me more each afternoon.Where is she? I keep on askingif your eyes disappear.How long she's taking! I think, and I'm hurt.I feel poor, foolish and sad,and you arrive and you are lightningglancing off the peach trees.That's why I love you and yet not why.There are so many reasons, and yet so few,for love has to be so,involving and general,particular and terrifying,joyful and grieving,flowering like the stars,and measureless as a kiss.That's why I love you and yet not why.There are so many reasons, and yet so few,for love has to be so,involving and general,particular and terrifying,joyful and grieving,flowering like the stars,and measureless as a kiss.	Pablo Neruda, Intimacies: Poems of Love	love, poetry

...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.

Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

friendship-and-love, heartbreak, life, love

Whatever happened to the dragon?"I mustered my primmest tone. "He has a name, you know."Adrian pulled back and gave me a curious look. "I didn't know, actually. What'd you decide on?""Hopper." When Adrian laughed, I added, "Best rabbit ever. He'd be proud to know his name is being passed on.""Yes, I'm sure he would. Did you name the Mustang too?""I think you mean the Ivashkinator."He stared at me in wonder. "I told you I loved you, right?"Yes," I assured him. "Many times.

Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines, cute, funny, humour, love, richelle-mead, romance, romantic, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-indigo-spell

I'm not married,” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

love, marriage

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

love

Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!

Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

breakup, broken, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearted-quotes, dating, faith, healing, heartache, heartbreak, heartbroken, hope, hurt, hurt-feelings, hurting, hurting-heart, inspirational, life, life-lessons, love, romance

Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart

Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

bridget, love, love-hurts

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Rita Mae Brown

gay, lesbian, lgbt, love, queer

You have my whole heart. You always did.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

faithfulness, fidelity, love

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Mother Teresa

charity, christian-behavior, compassion, helping-others, love, paraphrased, service

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

a-farewell-to-arms, ernest-hemingway, love

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

affection, blindness, denial, folly, love, refusal, romance, vanity

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

Rachel Ward, Numbers

end, gone, goodbye, leaving, lost, love, pain

I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

love, lovers

Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?” Bones asked, getting back to the subject. “You to take me,” she replied at once. “Not gonna happen!” I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That’s when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand.

Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

funny, love, vampire

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

Emily Dickinson

love

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,Love is knowing I am everything,and between the two my life moves.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

life, love, wisdom

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.

Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl

love, unrequited-love

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

love

I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

circumstance, distance, endure, inspirational, long-distance-love, love, power, relationships, soul-mates, true-love

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.

hatred, love

I don't want to know about love.''But you should, my child. You need to know about love. The things people will do for love. All truths come down to love, do they not? One way or another, they do. See, there is a difference between love and need. Sometimes, what you feel is immediate and without rhyme or reason.' She sat up a little straighter. 'Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn’t need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it’s right or wrong.

Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood

love

He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was…I wanted the wolf to devour me.

Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

love, romance

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

Taylor Swift

heartbreak, love, realtionship

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

heartbreak, love, truth

You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.

Kelly White

inspirational, love, music

A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.

Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

love

When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can’t just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you’re ready for it.

Colleen Hoover, November 9

love

my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw

Charles Bukowski

depression, facade, love, motherhood, pain

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break.So that was that. We were finally, finally over.I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the same way again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.'I couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’dalways been. He’d never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever.Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.I looked at him, and I thought, 'If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.'I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back. But I wasn’t that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew anyway.'I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.'I was the one to look away first.

Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

breakup, goodbye, inspirational, letting-go, love, release, romance

I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath.

Julie Kagawa, The Iron Knight

love

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Joseph Fort Newton

bigotry, bridges, compassion, culture, culture-wars, cultures, empathy, hate, hatred, inspirational, intolerance, love, men, misattributed, misattributed-to-isaac-newton, racism, separation, sympathy, tolerance, understanding, walls

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Sigmund Freud

love

I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.

Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

life, love

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

life, love, relationships

I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and hoped for. You are much, much more. Please know that I didn't think I was mean-minded. But I realize I am. I don't want you to put your arms around me and say it's all right, that you forgive me. I want you to be sure that you do, and my love for you will last as long as I live. I can see no lightness, no humour, no joke to make. I just hope that we will be able to go back to when we had laughter, and the world was coloured, not black and white and grey. I am so sorry for hurting you. I could inflict all kinds of pain on myself, but it would not take back any I gave to you. - David Power

Maeve Binchy, Echoes

forgiveness, love, romance, sorry

sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.

Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare

love, unrequited-love

I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Robert Frost, Birches

brevity, love, nature, time, youth

Love me like you'll never see me again.

Alicia Keys

love, proposition

Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete.

Ally Condie, Crossed

beauty, love

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

Shannon L. Alder

acceptance, adversity, best-friend, breakups, caring, child, cruelty, dad, dumped, endings, family, friendship, hurt, illness, love, mental-disorders, misunderstood-fights, mom, pain, rejection, sorrow, spouse, support, support-system, tough-times, trials, true-friendship

Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."“Why are they all high-calorie foods?

Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines, couple, cute, love, nicknames, richelle-mead, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-indigo-spell

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

hopelessness, inspirational, life, love

I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.

Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence

love, romance

I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.

Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

alina, feels, love, mal

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

adrian-ivashkov, flaws, love, realizations, sydney-sage

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain, Notebook

love, romantic-advice

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

Lauren Oliver, Requiem

choices, delirium, freedom, love

There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched.We separate.

James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

heart, love, people, soul

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

loneliness, love

I want you to knowone thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.

Pablo Neruda, If You Forget Me

inspirational, love, poetry

I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again.""Tobias," I say, "I love you.

Veronica Roth, Insurgent

beatrice-prior, family, four, insurgent, love, tobias-and-tris, tobias-eaton, veronica-roth

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

love, perception

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

loss, love

I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me," he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.

Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

love

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.

Jeanette Winterson

contradiction, heart, love

What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?""I love it." He says"Why?""Because we match.

Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

adorable, love, mess, romance

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

love

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.

Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

breaking-up, breakups, dating, finding-yourself, fresh-starts, letting-go, love, loving-yourself, moving-on, new-beginnings, not-settling, positive-thinking, relationships, self-improvement, the-end, the-single-woman

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!

Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

appreciation, gratitude, life, love, morning, seize-the-day, success

Before I fellin love with words,with setting skies and singing birds—it was you I fellin love with first.

Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

love, romance

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.

Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

hurt, love, romance, teen, ya

This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.

Colleen Hoover, Slammed

falling-in-love, flaws, love

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi

confusion, faith, inspirational, love

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

beauty, blind, blindness, contemplation, inner-beauty, love, relationship, seeing, shallowness, thought-provoking, true-love, unconditional-love

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

Nina LaCour, Hold Still

friendship, love, reason, regret, suicide

The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.

David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

love

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

Tammara Webber, Easy

hurt, letting-go, love

It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it’s a delightful story.

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

desire, love, satisfaction

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.]

Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

anger, generosity, goodness, inspirational, kindness, knowledge, love, truth, wisdom

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Paulo Coelho, Brida

love, understanding

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

love

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.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

humor, life, love, marriage

And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

emily-bronte, love, pain, wuthering-heights

Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

jace-wayland, love

What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Joseph Roux

friendship, love

I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you pass,The nonexistent carpet.And when you appearAll the rivers soundIn my body, bellsShake the sky,And a hymn fills the world.Only you and I,Only you and I, my love,Listen to it.

Pablo Neruda, Love Poems

love, poetry, romance

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War

love, music, power-of-music

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.

Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

inspirational, life, love, relationship, self-knowledge, truth

Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.

Paulo Coelho

love

He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.' to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love.

Heather Dixon, Entwined

humor, love

People do the damndest things when they’re in love.

Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood

love

Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out.It is also not being able to remove the smile from your face, loving life with a mad passionate intensity, and feeling ten years younger.Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.

Jackie Collins, Lucky

falling, falling-in-love, love

You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

books, fahrenheit-451, knowledge, love, magic

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god. 

Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

absence, amazement, amazing, commas, editing, funny, god, humor, love, lover, relationships, sex, sex-god, transform, transformation, word-junkies, writer, writing

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

lee, liam, love, ruby

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Jodi Picoult, Mercy

bereavement, casket, death, funeral, heart, loss, love, mourning

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Yukio Mishima

beauty, cruelty, love

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

love, passion, poetry, sonnet-xi

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

Cornel West

justice, love, society, wisdom

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

Jack Kerouac

love

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

cassandra-clare, city-of-bones, entertainment, funny, humor, jace-wayland, love, mortal-instruments

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross.

Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

friendship, love, memory, music

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

L.M. Montgomery

alone, hill, jane, lantern, love

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

anger, depression, emotions, feelings, forgiveness, love, outrage

All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.

Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones

chaos, lost-love, love

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.

Jessica Howell

hope, inspiration, love

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

beloved, faith, god, identity, love, self

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.

Alysha Speer

broken-heart, life, lonely, love, love-hurts, lover, memories, remember

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

beauty, beauty-in-nature, inspirational, love, meditation, mind, mindfulness, nature, nature-s-beauty, pure-awareness, purifying, relaxation

Amor"So many days, oh so many daysseeing you so tangible and so close,how do I pay, with what do I pay?The bloodthirsty springhas awakened in the woods.The foxes start from their earths,the serpents drink the dew,and I go with you in the leavesbetween the pines and the silence,asking myself how and whenI will have to pay for my luck.Of everything I have seen,it's you I want to go on seeing:of everything I've touched,it's your flesh I want to go on touching.I love your orange laughter.I am moved by the sight of you sleeping.What am I to do, love, loved one?I don't know how others loveor how people loved in the past.I live, watching you, loving you.Being in love is my nature.You please me more each afternoon.Where is she? I keep on askingif your eyes disappear.How long she's taking! I think, and I'm hurt.I feel poor, foolish and sad,and you arrive and you are lightningglancing off the peach trees.That's why I love you and yet not why.There are so many reasons, and yet so few,for love has to be so,involving and general,particular and terrifying,joyful and grieving,flowering like the stars,and measureless as a kiss.That's why I love you and yet not why.There are so many reasons, and yet so few,for love has to be so,involving and general,particular and terrifying,joyful and grieving,flowering like the stars,and measureless as a kiss.

Pablo Neruda, Intimacies: Poems of Love

love, poetry