“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” - Trina Paulus
“To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.” - William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lover’s eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.” - William Shakespeare
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.” - Maya Angelou
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.” - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“Hell's afloat in lover's tears.” - Dorothy Rothschild Parker
“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.” - Leo Buscaglia
“Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.” - Ayn Rand
“People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.” - Marcel Proust
“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.” - Henri B. Stendhal
“You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.” - Herman Hesse
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” - Jorge Luis Borges
“Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.” - Libbie Fudim
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.” - Orlando A. Battista
“We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.” - Ronald David Laing
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” - William Makepeace Thackeray
“Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.” - Ernest Hemingway
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.” - Vincent Van Gogh
“Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“You can't blame gravity for falling in love.” - Albert Einstein
“I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.” - Princess of Wales Diana
“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.” - [I Corinthians]
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” - Charlie Brown
“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”- Mary Kay Ash
“If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.” - Woody Allen
“Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.” - William M. Thackeray
“A man sits as many risks as he runs.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.” - Milton Friedman
“Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.” - Billie Jean King
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become 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. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.” - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
“Love is the beauty of the soul.” - St. Augustine
“The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.” - William Lyon Phelps
“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.” - Susan Sontag
“Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.” - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.” - Alexis De Tocqueville
“We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.” - St. Teresa of Avila
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” - Pearl S. Buck
“It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.” - Chuck Daly
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.” - George Bernard Shaw
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.” - Swedish Proverb
“What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.” - W. H. Auden
“I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.” - Billy Joel
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