#love

Mystics are not themselves. They do not exist in selves. They move as they are moved, talk as words come, see with sight that enters their eyes. I met a woman once and asked her where love had led her. Fool, there's no destination to arrive at. Loved one and lover and love are infinite. ↗

— فرید الدین عطار

#sword-sentiments #love

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#vanity #love

She wanted him to notice her so much. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#love #teenager #love

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being. ↗

— John Barth

#funhouse #girl #love #love

Love? Sodding, bloody, tossing, bloody, sodding, bloody love? Irrelevant, superfluous, bloody, ruddy, rotten, sodding love? What ho? Wherefore? What the f*ck? Love? ↗

— Christopher Moore

#fool #love

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#love

Life is for one day, love is for every day. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #love #inspirational

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love

I want to lay my kill at your feet. ↗

— Annette Curtis Klause

#love #respect #love

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#confrontation #progress #love