Even After All this time. The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me. "Look What happens With a love like that,It lights the whole sky.
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
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.
I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I loved anyone or anything ever. When you're around, I don't need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands...
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.
We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.