The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.- Stefan Zweig
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.- Brené Brown
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.- M. Scott Peck
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.- Dylan Thomas
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable- Jodi Picoult
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.- Elbert Hubbard
I love you more than I think I should.- Becca Fitzpatrick
You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.- Cristina Marrero
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles- Tahereh Mafi
If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we'€™ll have so much to talk about when I see you again'€¦ (Bones)- Jeaniene Frost
I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.- Lisa Kleypas
I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.- David Levithan
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.- John Lennon
Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.- Nicholas Sparks
We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?- John Green
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.- Leo Buscaglia
I don'€™t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians'€¦it'€™s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it'€™s not who you love'€¦a man, a woman, what have you'€¦it'€™s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.- Al Pacino
Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.- Julia Quinn
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.- George Orwell
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. - Hermann Hesse
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.- E.E Cummings
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.- Amit Ray
Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one- E.L. James
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.- Lady Gaga
Don'€™t worry if people think you'€™re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they'€™re destined to be.- Jennifer Elisabeth
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.- Timothy Keller
to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go- Tony Parsons
Be worthy love, and love will come.- Louisa May Alcott
That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.- Kathryn Stockett
I'€™m sort of'€¦ coming off a bad relationship'€Â'€œWhen did it end?'€Â'€œSlightly before it started.- Rainbow Rowell
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.- C.S. Lewis
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.- Albert Einstein
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.- Amit Kalantri
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.- Mahatma Gandhi
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.- William Shakespeare
I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.- Julie Kagawa
She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes."You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?- Rainbow Rowell
Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.- Nalini Singh
...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.- Emily Giffin
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.- Mandy Hale
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.- Charlotte Brontë
