Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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Anaïs Nin
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
James Thurber
“The best proof of love is trust.”
Joyce Brothers
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Honore de Balzac
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
Kim McMillen
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
Ovid
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Carl Sagan
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.”
T. Tolis
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
David Wilkerson
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
Wayne Dyer
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”
Paul McCartney
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
A. A. Milne
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
Jane Austen
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
Josh Billings
“It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
Bertrand Russell
