“After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your h…”— Jorge Luis Borges, hellopoetry.com
“Not for the first time, I sensed that those who know love and those who enjoy life are not the same people.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“I’m not just falling in love with you. I’m falling into you. You’re an ocean, and I’m falling in, drowning in the depths of who you are. Like you said, it’s scary in a way, but it’s also the most amazing thing I’ve ever experienced. You are the most amazing thing I’ve ever experienced.”— Jasinda Wilder, amazon.com
“I have been thinking of what you say about form.. .I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown.. ..and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown known. By unknown I mean…”— Georgia O’Keeffe, amazon.com
“You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to…”— Jostein Gaarder, amazon.com
“If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.”— Alan Shepard, amazon.com
“The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.”— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org
“I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe … But there is something about building up a comradeship — that I still believe is the greatest of all feats — and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving…”— Edmund Hillary, nytimes.com
“it is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.”— Charles Bukowski, facebook.com
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“Pain only appears in the presence of love. This much I can say I have learnt by heart...”— Sharanya Manivannan, softblow.org
“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”— Vladimir Nabokov, lib.ru
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web, of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”— Anton Chekhov, goodreads.com
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”— Alan Keightley, goodreads.com