Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
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It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I had always loved writing, but I had never really done any poetry. It seemed at that time to be the... MANDY SMOKER After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn’t everything that ma... MIA ASHER For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by h... RACHEL HARTMAN Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that l... SARAH CROSS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done ... VICTOR HUGO I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I d... RORY FREEDMAN What was it like?” Manon asked quietly. “To love.” For love was what it had been—what Asteri... SARAH J. MAAS I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ... JOHN GREEN Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to trav... RALPH ELLISON I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live. SAFFRON BURROWS You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several mo... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) is to continue believing you are someone that you re... DADA BHAGWAN I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. JOHN MAYER I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed ... ROXANE GAY Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... JOHN PRESCOTT Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Lovi... DARIA SNADOWSKY A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but n... LEO F. BUSCAGLIA There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. ... BENILDE LITTLE A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I c... DAVID ALAN GRIER I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I miss u, how can i tell that? I will never find someone like you,i will never love someone as much ... JAZZ I believe that I have always told the truth. ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - eve... KARA SWISHER The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that s... BEVERLY CLEARY It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes em... SHEILA HANCOCK Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n... W. P. KINSELLA In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble... KATHERINE DUNN From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had every... EDGAR MEYER I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had. RANDALL TERRY I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you rea... MUSIQ SOULCHILD I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for ... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. B... RICHARD CURTIS No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actual... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau... CHARLES DICKENS Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been de... OSCAR WILDE I froze. It was not guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt. It was not a ghast... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla, JOHN GREEN I believe in doing charity loving everyone caring about the World and all that crap. But a flash of ... RAYAN BLACK In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I love... ELIZABETH WURTZEL He loved me. I do not doubt that. In hindsight, I do not believe that I loved him. I simply felt his... NEIL GAIMAN You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ... RICHARD CURTIS I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume... GEORGE ORWELL You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, a... WOODROW WILSON I don't think there's any question that for a brief shining moment, the Post-Herald was the most imp... PAUL FINEBAUM The beauty of Love is that it can be possessed individually as well as in Union. You can love even i... ASHISH SOPHAT I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never lovi... LISA KLEYPAS Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. BERTRAND RUSSELL Being happy during a moment you love may make you forget that it would last just for a moment...and ... NISHI DE SILVA The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had... MICHAEL SCHENKER We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could... CASSANDRA CLARE There is not a “true” happiness and a “false” happiness. Only happiness and meaning. The key... JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ... CRAIG GROESCHEL He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the mome... SARAH J. MAAS To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one t... MOHANDAS GANDHI I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work a... TANA FRENCH It is by loving and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another. GEORGE MACDONALD When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC The distance between us, and I had never thought of this before, was that they did not know this, an... JAMES BALDWIN For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstanc... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the ... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enroll... PETER WRIGHT When I got a call earlier this morning, I was completely astounded. The fact that it is happening, a... INGRID SEWARD I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by ... COLLEEN HOOVER Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the... DEYTH BANGER Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that... C.S. LEWIS I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desi... ELLEN G. WHITE Who is most likely to bother about your happiness? You, yourself. So like yourself, love yourself, c... EVERSKEPTIC I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me f... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It wasn't love that you came for me. But your loving idea of having me grow madly in love with you. HENANNIE ZARAGOZA Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It... AMIT RAY It's easy for me to have a relationship with God. I know I can trust him ... to be there, to do the ... JAN DENISE It's easy for me to have a relationship with God. I know I can trust him ... to be there, to do the ... JAN DENISE
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JACLYN SMITH I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog... JACLYN SMITH Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that. JACLYN SMITH Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still... JACLYN SMITH Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. JACLYN SMITH I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my... JACLYN SMITH I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden. JACLYN SMITH You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style. JACLYN SMITH Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help ke... JACLYN SMITH I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or... JACLYN SMITH When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so... JACLYN SMITH I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin. JACLYN SMITH Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it th... JACLYN SMITH It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer. JACLYN SMITH I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just ... JACLYN SMITH You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect. JACLYN SMITH I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I... JACLYN SMITH Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, ... JACLYN SMITH It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us.... JACLYN SMITH After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better. JACLYN SMITH I always try to be reasonable and effective. IAN SMITH Every human being makes mistakes. IAN SMITH Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't wan... IAN SMITH Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principle... IAN SMITH You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You ca... PATTI SMITH I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as try... WILL SMITH The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran... WILBUR SMITH And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping... WILL SMITH