love

"All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love."

"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven."

"But this girl...she doesn’t feel pointless. She’s real and she’s beautiful and she fits perfectly when she’s in my arms. She makes me want to feel."

"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."

"It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

"You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person."

"Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me."

"Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces."[...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking."

"I’m willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it."

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

"You catch more flies with honey than you do with chopsticks. Let this be a lesson in love."

"Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you."

"Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers."

"I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a friend, an ex. I'll always try to treat people the way I want to be treated."

"The center will hold.” “How do you know?” “Because we are the center."

"Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family."

"الحب هو ذكاء المسافة، ألّا تقترب كثيرًا فتلغي اللهفة، ولا تبتعد طويلًا فتُنسى."