Love is a Fire
1
“More
smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less
stressed. More love, less hate.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
2
“And
now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is
love.”
―
Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
3
“I
am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and
it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have
you done in your life?' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into
what you did?”
―
Mother Teresa
4
“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.”
5
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
6
“Let
there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance
between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a
moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink
not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same
loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life
can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the
pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in
each other's shadow.”
―
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
7
“Love
is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house,
you can never tell.”
―
Joan Crawford
8
“It
is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever
loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is
well done.”
―
Vincent Van Gogh
9
“My
dear,
Find
what you love and let it kill you.
Let
it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into
eventual nothingness.
Let
it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For
all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be
killed by a lover.
~
Falsely yours”
―
Kinky Friedman
10
“You
are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a
whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I
have.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
11
“If
pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need
to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it
now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
―
Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
12
“Be
careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is
down and right is wrong.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
13
“I
think... if it is true that
there
are as many minds as there
are
heads, then there are as many
kinds
of love as there are hearts.”
―
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
14
“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
15
“I
have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the
tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with
you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you,
though."
"That's
sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so
you can make a list or a chart or something."
I
feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips
pressing my ear.
"Maybe
I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten
you."
I
laugh a little. "Then you should know better."
"Fine,"
he says. "Then I love you.”
―
Veronica Roth, Divergent
16
“The
most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too
much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
―
Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
17
“Love
does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love
is a war; love is a growing up.”
―
James A. Baldwin
18
“When
love is not madness it is not love.”
―
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
19
“How
many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices
in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends
how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give
'em.”
―
Shel Silverstein
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“I
loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against
happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
