“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.”
―
William W. Purkey
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
―
Dr. Seuss
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
―
Elbert Hubbard
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
―
Martin Luther King Jr.,
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
―
André Gide,
Autumn Leaves
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
―
Stephen Chbosky,
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.”
―
Elie Wiesel
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you
simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do
not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or
you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate
that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
―
Pablo Neruda,
100 Love Sonnets
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so
vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means
that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
―
Neil Gaiman,
The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
―
Sarah Dessen,
The Truth About Forever
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
―
William Shakespeare,
All's Well That Ends Well
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
―
Lao Tzu
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
―
Robert A. Heinlein,
Stranger in a Strange Land
“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
―
Suzanne Collins,
Mockingjay
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common
thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to
me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all
my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
―
Nicholas Sparks,
The Notebook
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
―
William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
―
Nicholas Sparks,
A Walk to Remember
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find
someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them
and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
―
Robert Fulghum,
True Love
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone
wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you
everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your
own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is
probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear
down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate
forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just
to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A
soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit,
show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new
light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have
to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert,
Eat, Pray, Love
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
―
Jodi Picoult,
My Sister's Keeper
“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.”
―
Anaïs Nin