Love

Bob Marley suggests that love thrives not in perfection, but in accepting imperfections and embracing the unique bond with someone who makes you laugh and think. In contrast, James Baldwin expresses skepticism about love, highlighting the difficulty in both receiving and believing in one's own worthiness of love. Authors like Rumi and Dylan Thomas explore the enduring power of love, with love persisting beyond death and being a profound force. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Gilbert and Sun Tzu highlight the risks and challenges in love, whether it be the vulnerability of desire or the struggle to love one's enemies.

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"This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children."

— Rumi

"Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way."

— Michael Jackson

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

— Dr. Seuss

"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"His breath hitched, and he regarded me hungrily. “You’re playing with fire, you know that?” “That’s weird, considering you’re an ice prin—” I didn’t get any further, as Ash leaned in and kissed me."

— Julie Kagawa

"Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!"

— Rumi

"Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place."

— Rumi

"Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You"

— Bob Marley

"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."

— Charlie Chaplin

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

— Mother Teresa

"Only by undressing ourselves of everything can we love everything."

— Kyrah Edwards

"When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself."

— Voltaire

"Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don’t want to get run over. But, you still cross the street."

— Audrey Hepburn

"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."

— Albert Camus

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with."

— George Bernard Shaw

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."

— Audrey Hepburn

"If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything."

— Marilyn Monroe

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."

— Emily Brontë