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#1

“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering

1526 likes

#2

“Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times.”
― Betsey Johnson

tags: boys, fashion, girls

485 likes

#3

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”
― Nicholas Sparks

tags: love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook

9496 likes

#4

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

tags: love, relationships, romance

12913 likes

#5

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: disappointment, love, romance

7437 likes

#6

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

7391 likes

#7

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: love, romance

5557 likes

#8

“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: music, romance, unrequited-love

5966 likes

#9

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

tags: friendship, humor, romance

5018 likes

#10

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

tags: love, romance

5002 likes

#11

“When love is not madness it is not love.”
― Pedro Calderon de la Barca

tags: love, romance

5335 likes

#12

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran

6385 likes

#13

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: love, poets, romance

4472 likes

#15

“-We need more love, to supersede hatred, -We need more strength,
to resist our weaknesses,
-We need more inspiration,
to lighten up our innermind.
-We need more learning,
to erase our ignorance,
-We need more wisdom,
to live longer and happier,
-We need more truths, to suppress deceptions,
-We need more health,
to enjoy our wealth,
-We need more peace, to stay in harmony with our brethren
-We need more smiles,
to brighten up our day,
-We need more hero's, and not zero's,
-We need more change of ourselves, to change the lives of others,
-We need more understanding,
to tackle our misunderstanding,
-We need more sympathy,
not apathy,
-We need more forgiveness,
not vengeance,
-We need more humility to be lifted up,
-We need more patience and not undue eagerness,
-We need more focus, to avoid distraction,
-We need more optimism,
not pessimism
-We need more justice,
not injustice,
-We need more facts, not fiction,
-We need more education,
to curb illiteracy,
-We need more skills, not incompetence,
-We need more challenges,
to make attempts,
-We need more talents,
to create the extraordinary,
-We need more helping hands,
not stingy folks,
-We need more efforts,
not laziness,
-We need more jokes, to forget our worries, -We need more spirituality,
not mean religion,
-We need more freedom,
not enslavement,
-We need more peacemakers,
not revolutionaries...with these, we create an heaven on earth.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#16

“the saddest thing is to be
a minute to someone,
when you've made them your eternity.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: eternity, heartbreak, indian-authors, love-quotes, loving, loving-someone, minutes, pain, poetry, poetry-quotes, sad-quotes, sadness, unrequited-love

723 likes

#17

“There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: be-happy, benefit, best, better, blessing, care, caring, composure, eat, eat-and-drink, enjoy, enjoy-life, enjoy-yourself, girl-power, good-life, good-riddance, good-things, hanging-out, life, life-and-living, loving-someone, merry, peace, relationship, relationships, the-best, together, worst

95 likes

#18

“In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: beautiful, beauty, bonfires, boyfriends, caring, charity, compassion, dating, discernment, driven, fire, girlfriends, giving, goodness, haunting, heartache, inner-beauty, inspirational, integrity, kindness, longevity, love, loving-someone, marriage, mates, passion, regrets, relationships, romance, selective, service, sharing, spitfire, spouses, tenacious, tenacity, tenderness, true-beauty, uplifting

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#19

“The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: affection, attention, fanatic, give, less, love, loved-ones, loving-someone, more, much, recieve, them, too-much, truth

48 likes

#20

“ACTS OF LOVE

Love is not a word
Or a thought.
It is the name for
An action
That breathes from its light.
What do you
DO
In Love's name?
And is it only done
Outside
In the light?
Or with an inner
Flame
Illuminating
Love's
TRUE
Name?

I want to know.

Are your actions
Done by remote
Or with
SOUL?
And when you say
You love someone,
Does a light go off
Inside at all?

What have
YOU
Done
In the
Name of
LOVE?

Because,
Really,
I want to know.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: actions, breathe, burning-love, fake-love, flame, gestures, life, light, light-of-love, love, love-hurts, love-poem, love-poetry, love-story, love-you, loving, loving-people, loving-someone, lust, name, name-of-love, poetry, real-love, real-love-back, relationships, romance, romantic, soul, thought, thoughts-on-life

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#21

“I love you sounds best spoken in quiet acts of kindness.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

tags: acts-of-kindness, i-love-you, kindness, love, loving, loving-someone, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich

20 likes

#22

“When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.”
― Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

tags: embarrassment, love, love-quote, love-quotes-and-sayings, loving-someone, quotes-about-love, surprise, surprises, when-you-re-in-love

8 likes

#23

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

tags: music, power-of-music

189 likes

#24

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: boys, rain, summer

2048 likes

#25

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
― Pierre Auguste Renoir

66 likes

#26

“There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.”
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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#27

“You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them all flat.”
― Renoir

tags: nature, theories

19 likes

#28

“-last words about painting, age 78...
I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.”
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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#29

“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.”
― Renoir

15 likes

#30

“The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.”
― Pierre Auguste Renoir

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