J. R. Ward

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.

You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.”
Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?”
You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand

You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.
After they were gone?
That was all you thought about.
Day and night.

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.

I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

Tom Robbins

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.

Irving Stone

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life

How difficult it is to be simple

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

There's no love without pain.

Loneliness is a kind of prison.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it

Money makes the man a beast.

Artists thrive on suffering.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

Scott Adams

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

The best things in life are silly.

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational
things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the
principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Paulo Coelho II

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

 Marianne Williamson

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Nicholas Sparks

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Every great love starts with a great story. . . 

Kent M. Keith

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway…

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.” 

Sylvia Plath II

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

What did my arms do before they held you?

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

Raymond Carver

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Don’t complain, don’t explain.

Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.

Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.