#love

Do you believe in fate?” “I guess, but... it‟s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You know? ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#romance #susane-colasanti #life

Could it possibly be that he yearned for some of the same things she yearned for? Love. Someone to call your own. Someone to share the joys and the sorrows of life. ↗

— Dorothy Garlock

#love #relationships #life

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love" (CCC 1022; by St. John of the Cross) ↗

— Juan de la Cruz

#love #life

I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my life (and she seemed to know this) I had not loved anyone without having been wounded. Love was power and possession, love caused pain: you were never more exposed than when you were in love, never more wounded; possession was an enslavement, something stifling. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#love #possession #power #life

Love has to be a two-way street; otherwise, you'll never meet in the middle. ↗

— Brian MacLearn

#love #life

Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail, And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale: 'Time is short, life is short,' they took up the tale: 'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may; Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail; Love is sweet, use to-day. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#love #poem #time #life

Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now? ↗

— Nadège Richards

#life #love #regret #taking-chances #time

Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us? ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#image-of-god #love #life

No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#love #mistakes #vanity #life

I know you. I've known you my whole life. I've been waiting. Waiting for you to make an appearance. Waiting all these years. I knew you in the womb. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#life