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#1

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

tags: books, knowledge, literature, reading, self, words

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#2

“Language is the only homeland.”
― Czesław Miłosz

tags: belonging, home, language, roots

161 likes

#3

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

22183 likes

#4

“i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

tags: love, women

221 likes

#5

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: love, yearning

1218 likes

#6

“Your soul will find me.. and when it does,
I will make love to it in a way
that no one will understand.”
― Carlos Medina

tags: inspirational-quotes, love-quotes, soul-searching, soulmates

5 likes

#7

“Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

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#8

“I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.”
― Rachel Gibson, The Trouble With Valentine's Day

tags: forever, hea, love, marriage, romance

291 likes

#9

“ When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.”
― Natalie Clifford Barney

tags: love, romance

264 likes

#10

“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you”
― Nora Roberts, Black Hills

tags: love, romance

294 likes

#11

“Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: anna-and-the-french-kiss, british-boys, etienne-st-clair, romance, swoon

124 likes

#12

“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.”
― Billie-Jo Williams

tags: adventure, angel, debut-novel, destiny-of-dragons, dragon, dragons, ebook, environment, epic, epic-fantasy, facebook, fantasy, fiction, good-vs-evil, indie-author, kindle, magic, military-fantasy, nook, persecution, pirates, romance, self-published, series, smashwords, tyranny, vampires, werewolf, werewolves

112 likes

#13

“See mirror, every time you will miss me and look deeper into your eyes till you will find me.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

tags: love, poem, romance

147 likes

#14

“فإنْ كانَ قلبكِ يا سيّدتي شيئاً غيرَ القلوب فما نحنُ شيئاً غيرَ النّاس , وَ إنْ كنتِ هندسةً وحدها في بناءِ الحبِّ فما خُلقتْ أعمارنا في هندستكِ للقياس , وَ هبي قلبكِ خُلقَ " مربّعاً " أفلا يسعنا " ضلعٌ " من أضلاعه , أوْ " مدوّراً " أفلا يُمسكنا " محيطه " في " نقطة " منْ انخفاضه أو ارتفاعه , وَ هبيه " مثلّثا " فاجعلينا منهُ بقيّةً في " الزّاوية " أو " مستطيلاً " فدعينا نمتدُّ معه وَ لوْ إلى ناحية ...!”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

tags: literature, love, romance

41 likes

#15

“Love is photogenic, it develops in the dark.”
― LORRAINE GOKUL

tags: humor, inspirational, romance

36 likes

#16

“When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.

About Alex and Brittany.”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

tags: funny, humour, romance, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-romance

53 likes

#17

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: beliefs, books, boyfriend, choices, faith, family, friendships, girlfriend, hang-ups, in-love, life, love, marriage, memories, moving-on, nostalgia, obsessions, peace, relationships, religion, sister-in-laws, sisters, spouse, unrequited-love, wife, writing

1183 likes

#18

“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

tags: calling, love, men, relationships

570 likes

#19

“After 49 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.”
― Kaylin McFarren

tags: human-nature, humor, love-quotes, marriage-quotes, romance

15 likes

#20

“The world keeps hanging on to this idea that love is for the gullible. But nothing could be more wrong. Love is only for the brave.”
― Katherine Center, What You Wish For

tags: bravery, love, romance

27 likes

#21

“True love, Hilo mused, was sensual and euphoric, but also painful and tyrannical, demanding obedience.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

tags: romance

36 likes

#22

“Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

25 likes

#23

“The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach

tags: fear, heartache, love, romance, vunerability

27 likes

#24

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature

5480 likes

#25

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, pride

3005 likes

#26

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: happiness, man, trouble

3350 likes

#27

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: emma, jane-austen

295 likes

#28

“When you can’t reach the standards of another’s heart you must ask yourself,
"What value do I put on my soul that I would subject myself to such rejection?”
― Shannon Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

tags: love, relationships, romance

90 likes

#29

“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: aging-gracefully, inner-beauty, kindness

1564 likes

#30

“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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