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A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#fight #love #relationships #volatility #love

[...] you're willing to look past things and to give people second chances. But the thing is, Rose, some people don't deserve them. ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#options #second-chances #love

Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before." Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170 ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#love

Beneath her curls, I forget the world, With a mere gaze she raises my hopes of gold. Love is as much in her heart as in mine, But she doesn’t say it, her punishment so divine. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#love-poem #romance #unsaid-words #love

Lost love is still love. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#love

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us. ↗

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#humans #jeffery #masson #love

Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love

With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love. ↗

— Diane Wolkstein

#becoming #bows #choice #eros #kama

We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective ↗

— Justin Somper

#love

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#pain #wisdom #love