“I'm afraid I am a born romantic. I never had any doubt that I could fulfill any man's dream if I chose to. My mother had given me the key: tender, loving care.”— Jane Russell, amazon.com
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.”— Michael Ondaatje, amazon.com
“If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.”— James Carson, amazon.com
“Always love more than you are loved and never to be second in this.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, 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
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.”— Izumi Shikibu, amazon.com
“You were given the power to love in order to use it, not matter what pain it may cause you.”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“It’s awful not to be loved. It’s the worst thing in the world…It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Listen, we are human beings. Listen, we are inclined to love. Love is there, but we need to be taught how. We want to stand upright, we want to walk, but someone needs to hold our hand and balance us a bit, and guide us a bit, and scoop us up when we fall. Listen, we fall. Love is there but we have…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can’t bear to be this happy without the other person with you.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I had revealed to him?”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.”— Osho, amazon.com
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples fall…”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“Be blessed. And just as you are transforming your own life, may you transform the lives of those around you. When they ask, do not forget to give. When they knock at your door, be sure to open it. When they lose something and come to you, do whatever you can to help them find what they have lost. Fi…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?”— Miranda July, amazon.com