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“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.”
― Janet Goodfriend, For the Love of Art

“Sometimes, you simply must follow your heart," she said. "No reasonable man can blame you for that." A smile. "No reasonable woman can, either.”
― Leonard Pitts Jr., Freeman

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
― Shawn Slovo, Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Maybe it takes five years for wishes to come true, I thought. The same way the best time to start something was five years ago”
― Kelly Oxfordrd, Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“True love is tested when betrayed.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Ego is recessive in wisdom.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“There is no point of adventure if you have known about everything.
I wonder how God deals with the situation, considering the boredom.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“By having good memories on every place you just visit,
you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“‎If heart filled with purity,
then mind found the beauty.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I respect those who don't secretly hate me.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Charisma is the fragrance of soul.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,
let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of a Lost Star

“And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes
And the rain won't make any difference?
No”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.”
― Michelle Moran, Nefertiti

“You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...”
― Michelle Moran, Nefertiti

“Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.”
― Jerry and Eileen Spinelli, Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story