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true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#darkness #gift #love #love

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#unconditional-love #love

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#knowledge #women #love

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love-the-one-your-with #love

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #love

Ladies, let me give you some advice. You can throw all your stupid fucking chick-lit, self-help, why-doesn't-he-love-me books out, because this is all you need to know: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as "deserving" respect; you get what you demand from people.. if you demand respect, he will either respect you or he won't associate with you. It really is that simple. ↗

— Tucker Max

#men-and-women #love

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #metaphor #love

Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#interdependence #life #love #life

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again! ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#determination #initiative #self-improvement #love