#love

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#love #understanding #life

Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well. ↗

— Alexandra Katehakis

#gift #life #love #world #life

You can have the whole world looking out for you, Pari, but it is not a substitute for that one special person to share your life with. ↗

— Farahad Zama

#life

7 - VI Quizá debemos aprender que lo imperfecto es otra forma de la perfección: la forma que la perfección asume para poder ser amada. ↗

— Roberto Juarroz

#life-and-living #love #life

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair! ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#love #life

But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full dazzle, with so much loss to mock it. Roger gone, Craig gone, Cesar gone, Stevie gone. And this feeling that I'm the last one left, in a world where only the ghosts still laugh. But at least they're the ghosts of full-grown men, proof that all of us got that far, free of the traps and the lies. And from that moment on the brink of summer's end, no one would ever tell me again that men like me couldn't love. ↗

— Paul Monette

#love #life

All my life I have lived within the very hours of the hands of love. ↗

— Valentinno

#love #romance #valentinno #life

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. ↗

— Esther Perel

#love #marriage #marriage-advice #romance #time

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#life #living-life-to-the-full #love #life

Plenty of animals had pets, but few were more devoted than the mouse, who owned a baby corn snake—“A rescue snake, she’d be quick to inform you. This made it sound like he’d been snatched from the jaws of a raccoon, but what she’d really rescued him from was a life without her love. And what sort of a life would that have been? ↗

— David Sedaris

#pets #life