Life Quotes - Page 16

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way

I wake up and tear drops, they fall down like rain. I put on that old song we danced to and then, I head off to my job cause not much has changed. Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone. Just in case. Go to bed, dream of you. That's what I am doing these days.

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.

That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore.

There's two kinds of women-those you write poems about and those you don't.

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!

You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love.

Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.

It just has to be.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

I can chase you, and I can catch you,
but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.