You are My Best Friend
1
“You
are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I
enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life
together.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
2
“You
are, and always have been, my dream.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
3
“I
would always rather be happy than dignified.”
―
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
4
“Promise
Yourself
To
be so strong that nothing
can
disturb your peace of mind.
To
talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to
every person you meet.
To
make all your friends feel
that
there is something in them
To
look at the sunny side of everything
and
make your optimism come true.
To
think only the best, to work only for the best,
and
to expect only the best.
To
be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as
you are about your own.
To
forget the mistakes of the past
and
press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To
wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and
give every living creature you meet a smile.
To
give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that
you have no time to criticize others.
To
be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and
too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To
think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not
in loud words but great deeds.
To
live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so
long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
―
Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
5
“And
now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as
if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes
me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to
anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it
took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have
belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
6
“Where
there is love there is life.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
7
“Every
heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who
wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a
poet.”
―
Plato
8
“Doubt
thou the stars are fire;
Doubt
that the sun doth move;
Doubt
truth to be a liar;
But
never doubt I love.”
―
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
9
“I
think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for
you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in
love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I
just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would
hurt, but I was wrong.”
―
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
10
“Some
women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If
you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up
and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
―
Lady Gaga
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“Nobody
has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
―
Zelda Fitzgerald
12
“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
13
“There
are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull
back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with
passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first,
in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot
fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution
and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted
vision of people who embrace life.”
―
John Lennon
14
“Once
upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question
he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
―
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
15
“Out
beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and
rightdoing there is a field.
I'll
meet you there.
When
the soul lies down in that grass
the
world is too full to talk about.”
―
Rumi
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“We
loved with a love that was more than love.”
―
Edgar Allen Poe
17
“Eleanor
was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed
to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
―
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
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“We
fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and
beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and
that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll
never forget a single moment of it.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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“And
so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away,
hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What
a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What
a sick, masochistic lion.”
―
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
20
“This
is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
