I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Quotes tagged ‘Love & Contentment’
When they were together like that, they had been their own private universe, bounded just by themselves, a population of two. They were the world, and the world was them.
'I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart. How'd that be?’ ‘I'd love to look like you,’ I said, 'I'd love to be you.'
But what happens when you don't find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn't great, everything isn't perfect, but it is nice and sweet?
It's a privilege to be loved by you.
I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.
And when you choose a life partner, you're choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, you…
Time flows smoother when you are with people you love.
But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.
I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.
I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time, exce…
And it was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
I’ll never ask you to be anything other than exactly you.
and loving me isn’t easy. i have sharp edges, i have missing parts.
I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It’s like…finding yourself, or maybe it’s like finding the other part of yourself.
But my favorite thing of all: I like you ‘cause you like me. I don’t know - I think that says a lot about how great you are as a person.
When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.
Love is all about the small things in whatever way you define it. Be content & grateful for what you have. Always.