Martin Luther King Jr. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace 48590 likes like André Gide “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― André Gide, Autumn Leaves tags: life, love 40988 likes like Bob Marley “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.” ― Bob Marley tags: love 40015 likes like We accept the love we think we deserve. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower tags: inspirational, love 39431 likes like John Green “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: love 29713 likes like Elie Wiesel “The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, its indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, its indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, its indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy 29355 likes like Friedrich Nietzsche “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage 29127 likes like Pablo Neruda “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets tags: love, poetry 26257 likes like Sarah Dessen “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever tags: love 25999 likes like Neil Gaiman “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isnt it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones tags: love 25873 likes like William Shakespeare “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare, Alls Well That Ends Well tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong 25088 likes like Marilyn Monroe “This life is what you make it. No matter what, youre going to mess up sometimes, its a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how youre going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - theyll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - theyre your true best friends. Dont let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, theyll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you cant give up because if you give up, youll never find your soulmate. Youll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesnt mean youre gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you dont, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because lifes a beautiful thing and theres so much to smile about.” ― Marilyn Monroe tags: attributed-no-source, friends, heartbreak, inspirational, life, love, sisters 24376 likes like Lao Tzu “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed 23626 likes like Robert A. Heinlein “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land tags: essential, happiness, love 22223 likes like Bob Marley “You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? Shes not perfect—you arent either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So dont hurt her, dont change her, dont analyze and dont expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when shes not there.” ― Bob Marley tags: love 20324 likes like Suzanne Collins “You love me. Real or not real? I tell him, Real.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games 20028 likes like Nicholas Sparks “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and Ive led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but Ive loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love 19845 likes like William Shakespeare “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream tags: love 18267 likes like Marilyn Monroe “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.” ― Marilyn Monroe tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love 17972 likes like Nicholas Sparks “Love is like the wind, you cant see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember tags: love, simile 17719 likes like Robert Fulghum “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” ― Robert Fulghum, True Love tags: love, weirdness 17307 likes like Elizabeth Gilbert “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and thats what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person youll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love tags: love 17066 likes like Marilyn Monroe “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” ― Marilyn Monroe tags: love 16975 likes like Jodi Picoult “You dont love someone because theyre perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that theyre not.” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sisters Keeper tags: imperfect, love 16289 likes like Anaïs Nin “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we dont 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.” ― Anaïs Nin tags: death, love 16076 likes like John Green “Im in love with you, he said quietly. Augustus, I said. I am, he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. Im in love with you, and Im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. Im in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that were all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth well ever have, and I am in love with you.”
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