We QUOTES

1 " We accept the love we think we deserve. "

2 " 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

3 " 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

4 " When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. "

― Paulo Coelho , The Alchemist

5 " We love the things we love for what they are. "

― Robert Frost

6 " 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. "

― John Lennon

7 " We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it. "

― Nicholas Sparks , The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)

8 " 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. "

― Haruki Murakami , South of the Border, West of the Sun

9 " This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. "

― Elizabeth Gilbert , Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

10 " No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot. "

― Sarah Dessen , This Lullaby

11 " For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. "

― Stephanie Perkins , Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)

12 " 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. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Kindly Ones (The Sandman, #9)

13 " 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? "

14 " I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. " I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. " I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." " That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. " We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear." Maybe I'm already sure," he says, " and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. " Then you should know better." " Fine," he says. " Then I love you. "

15 " Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. "

― James Baldwin

16 " We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved. "

― C. JoyBell C.

17 " 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. "

― Paulo Coelho

18 " Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect. "

― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

19 " The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them "

― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

20 " 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. "

― Rumi

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