#love

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow. ↗

— Tess Gerritsen

#life #love #life

Whoever debases others is debasing himself. ↗

— James Baldwin

#love #racism #life

Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#life

It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#colin #happy-ever-after #love #romance #soulmates

Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? ↗

— Yann Martel

#life #love #life

Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #possibility #regrets #what-if #life

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#life #love #physcology #life

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#life

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love #life

You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#mission #purpose #self-empowerment #self-esteem #self-love