love

"Love means not ever having to say you're sorry."

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?"She stares at him. "Me?""Yeah,"he says sitting back. "I'm way too honest with you."

"Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you."

"Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else."

"And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."

"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."

"You said move on, where do I go?"

"It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."

"Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure."

"Why is love intensified by absence?"

"It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication."

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

"It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect."

"Everything is clearer when you're in love."

"With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me."

"The roses of romance grow when you water your relationship with gratitude. Love will bloom and blossom when you recognize the awesome."