#love

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is? ↗

— David Levithan

#life #love #life

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#love #life

every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns ↗

— Billy Joel

#love #life

For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#love #mysticism #will #business

If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag? ↗

— Laura Schroff

#love #service #business

A word is a lot. ↗

— Etgar Keret

#life #love #monologue #life

Never mind that. What's going on with you and Heath?" Annabelle pulled a little wide-eyed innocence out of her rusty bag of college acting skills. "What do you mean? Business." "Don't give me that. We've been friends too long." She switched to a furrowed brow. "He's my most important client. You know how much this means to me." Molly wasn't buying it. "I've seen the way you look at him. Like he was a slot machine with triple sevens tattooed on his forehead. If you fall in love with him, I swear I'll never speak to you again." Annabelle nearly choked. She'd known Molly would be suspicious, but she hadn't expected an outright confrontation. "Are you nuts? Setting aside the fact that he treats me like a flunky, I'd never fall for a workaholic after what I've had to go through with my family." Falling in lust, however, was an entirely different matter. "He has a calculator for a heart," Molly said. "I thought you liked him. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#humor #love #lust #romance #business

Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can express it. You must love yourself before you can give it to another. ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#life #love #inspirational

The love of life begins with the love of one person. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#love #the-personal #life

Love: fact of bringing up a person into a high level of importance in your life. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#high #importance #life #love #person