Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Music is the best way for me to say I love you.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
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