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#1

“Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: lovely

426 likes

#2

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: adoration, male-beauty, true-love

212 likes

#3

“Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.”
― Jim Beaver, Life's That Way

tags: cancer, courage, disease, inspirational, life, strength

131 likes

#4

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: adulthood, growing-up, life, maturity

692 likes

#5

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: decisions, love, stars, taking-chances

2984 likes

#6

“I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.”
― Alessandra Torre

tags: love, love-quotes, love-quotes-for-him, marriage, relationship, relationships, soul-mates, true-love

170 likes

#7

“My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, Tris & Izzie

tags: true-love

109 likes

#8

“The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: embrace, happiness, inspirational, love, men, relationships, strength, true-love

127 likes

#9

“The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

118 likes

#10

“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: affair, affection, attachment, bond, care, caring, close, emotion, emotions, fellow-feeling, friendship, friendships, game, hide-and-seek, intimacy, love-affair, lover, lovers, michael-bassey-johnson, mutual-attachment, passion, play, relationship, seeker, sharing, true-love, truth

254 likes

#11

“In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.”
― Mike Dooley

tags: selfless-love, true-love

89 likes

#12

“You read all kinds of books and see all kinds of movies about the man who is obsessed and devoted, whose focus is a single solid beam, same as the lighthouse and that intense, too. It is Heathcliff with Catherine. It is a vampire with a passionate love stronger than death. We crave that kind of focus from someone else. We'd give anything to be that "loved." But that focus is not some soul-deep pinnacle of perfect devotion - it's only darkness and the tormented ghosts of darkness. It's strange, isn't it, to see a person's gaping emotional wounds, their gnawing needs, as our romance? We long for it, I don't know why, but when we have it, it is a knife at our throat on the banks of Greenlake. It is an unwanted power you'd do anything to be rid of. A power that becomes the ultimate powerlessness.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

tags: beautiful, true-love

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#13

“A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: abandonment, belonging, fear, generousity, gift, heart, love, true-love

235 likes

#14

“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: catholic-author, endearment, falling-in-love, feelings, heart, i-love-you, i-love-you-forever, i-love-you-no-matter-what, love, love-at-first-sight, love-story, lovers, romance, romantic, sentimental, sentiments, sonnets, sweethearts, true-love

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#15

“Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: cake, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, love, true-love

188 likes

#16

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love

2523 likes

#17

“There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then."
She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: clary-fray, forbidden-love, i-love-you, jace-wayland, love, true-love

1142 likes

#18

“We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.

From time to time, sit close to the one you love, hold his or her hand, and ask, 'Darling, do I understand you enough? Or am I making you suffer? Please tell me so that I can learn to love you properly. I don't want to make you suffer, and if I do so because of my ignorance, please tell me so that I can love you better, so that you can be happy." If you say this in a voice that communicates your real openness to understand, the other person may cry.

That is a good sign, because it means the door of understanding is opening and everything will be possible again.

Maybe a father does not have time or is not brave enough to ask his son such a question. Then the love between them will not be as full as it could be. We need courage to ask these questions, but if we don't ask, the more we love, the more we may destroy the people we are trying to love. True love needs understanding. With understanding, the one we love will certainly flower.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: happiness, thich-nhat-hanh, true-love, understanding

274 likes

#19

“True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: committment, love, richelle, richelle-goodrich, sureness, surety, true-love

20 likes

#20

“Do you want love, or do you want control?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

tags: acceptance, love, peace, relationship-struggles, true-love

13 likes

#21

“Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

tags: acceptance, acceptance-of-others, love, romance, true-love

12 likes

#22

“Life is pain and everyone dies, but true love lives forever.”
― J.T. Geissinger

tags: life, love, sad-but-true, true-love

19 likes

#23

“I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.”
― Paola Kaufmann, The Sister: A Novel of Emily Dickinson

tags: approximation, love, lukewarm, memory, true-love

11 likes

#24

“...true love is my religion...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

tags: relgion, true-love

6 likes

#25

“It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.”
― Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

tags: attachment, buddhism, detachment, sprituality

33 likes

#26

“People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.”
― Gary Hopkins

tags: compassion, complexity, detachment, enlightened, enlightenment, simplicity, spirituality, truth

27 likes

#27

“If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

tags: awakening, breakup, chances, conversation, detachment, disconnection, food-for-thought, foward, friends, gone, growing-up, growth, no-need, reason, sail, separation, set-sail, ship, waste

35 likes

#29

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

tags: being-loved, completion, inspirational, love, relationships

5778 likes

#30

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: acceptance, being-loved, love, marriage, relationships, truth

2870 likes

#31

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

tags: compassion, destiny, empathy, pain, universe

1300 likes

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