“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com
“expose your heartbeat and you’ll feel the heat from the stars as they course through your body and unstitch your scars and open you up to the strangers whose potential you’ve thrown into surrender this whole time. You’ll remember how it felt to feel alive, how it felt to feel full and thrive on some…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”— Jean Rhys, amazon.com
“I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Love is like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, w…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I felt on seeing her that desire to live which is reborn in us whenever we become conscious anew of beauty and of happiness.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Break my heart open. Watch what poetry comes from it. Watch how I grow fiercely into someone who will not shake because of your name.”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com