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#1

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

#2

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

4243 likes

#3

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality

3516 likes

#5

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

tags: love, poem, relationships, romance

3168 likes

#6

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: kissing, love, romance

4505 likes

#7

“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Very Valentine

tags: love, romance

580 likes

#8

“I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: love, romance

440 likes

#9

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

7878 likes

#10

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

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#11

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

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#12

“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
― Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi

tags: love

1288 likes

#13

“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din, مثنوی معنوی

1198 likes

#14

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”
― Rumi

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#15

“Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.”
― Cameron Dokey, Winter's Child

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#16

“I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

tags: people, trust, trusting

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#17

“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”
― Kellie Elmore

tags: couples, love, relationships, romance, seasons, unrequited-love, winter

70 likes

#18

“Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?

The tree says to the leaf:
"That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

tags: inspirational, love, struggle

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#19

“Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

tags: autumn, seasons

48 likes

#20

“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

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#21

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: courtship, cynicism, love, lying, passion

1955 likes

#22

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: dorothy-parker, heterosexuality, homosexuality, humor, wit

1630 likes

#23

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: writing, writing-process

1545 likes

#24

“What fresh hell is this?”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

1035 likes

#25

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

tags: horticulture, puns

819 likes

#26

“And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

616 likes

#27

“Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?

A: You can't hear an enzyme.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: double-entendre, hormone, innuendo, naughty, riddle

226 likes

#28

“People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,

you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.”
― Rumi

1038 likes

#29

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: lovers

2627 likes

#30

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

2203 likes

#31

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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