love

"Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling"

"It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love."

"You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master."

"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another."

"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

"Do you think it’s easy for me? No, I don’t remember you. I don’t remember holding you or talking to you or falling in love with you—but I walk around with a giant hole in my heart all the time. I feel your absence every second of the day. It aches and nothing soothes it. Losing you is bad enough, but I don’t even get the comfort of remembering that I had you once.-Haden"

"I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard."

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being."

"It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love."

"The love of my life has made me the happiest man ever. This ever-smiling man/mannequin is so happy because he’s got no brain, and in this way is identical to anyone who still rah-rahs for either a Republican or a Democrat."

"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday."

"True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share."

"Here’s what I’d love to see: A vending machine that dispenses cats for petting on your lunch break. Instead of money, the machine accepts hugs."

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

"لماذا يموت الحب يا ملاكي الصغير ؟‎ ‎‏ ‏لماذا تخبو تلك الجمرة المقدسة لتصير رمادًا برغم لهيبها الذي أحرقنا يوماً ؟يبدأ فقدان الحب بأن نكف عن العطاء بعدها نكف عن الأخذ..."

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened."

"Love is keeping the promise anyway."

"There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire."