“First love is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy be allowed to overflow, it will stifle you…” - The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck, on falling in love, a response to his eldest son’s 1958 letter, from John Steinbeck: A Life in Letters (Viking Adult, 1975)
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Sir Nicholas Winton.
Actually crying.
Now I’m crying…
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national geographic, 1972 “young lovers in paris” by gordon w. gahan
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also true if we replace “she” with “he” and “her” with “his”
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“Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn’t always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world.”
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
Bell Hooks
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Young man … one day your daughter will grasp you this way wrapping her tiny hand around your thumb. When this happens your life will change forever. You will become a protector rather than a pursuer of women.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz (via larmoyante)
Infinite love is a mystery, and for everything else there’s math.
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh. (via mfs)
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