Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams.

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

Drownin’ in the sea of love where everyone would love to drown.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.

Love is what we’re born with. Fear is what we learned here.

I miss the thought of a forever, you and me. But all you’re missing is my body.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand. (Anna Karenina)

Baby I’m a fool who thinks it’s cool to fall in love!

I never met a woman I didn’t like. I love ’em all, in their different ways.

You demonstrate love by giving it unconditionally to yourself. And as you do, you attract others into your life who are able to love you without conditions.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Sometimes I feel like a kid wanting nothing more than to squeeze you tight and call you mine.

I knew from that first moment we met. It was not love at first sight exactly, but – familiarity. Like oh, hello, it’s you. It’s going to be you. Game over.

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.