So here’s a secret about me that only my closest friends know (and now you!!): I’m obsessed with Love (with a big L). By contrast I’m rarely thinking about say, food, fitness, being in shape, dressing well–sure I’m interested, but those are just what I need to live well–and Love is what I live for. This isn’t to say I have a schoolgirl’s crush on the idea of love–but that, having loved deeply and intensely, and gotten my heart broken more than once, I’m convinced that love is indispensable to the full experience of being human. And isn’t that what it’s all about?
Evidently, from the New Year to Valentine’s Day is *the* time of the year for online dating–which means people are looking for love, right about now! Without further ado, here are my favorite quotes about love to inspire you, whatever your relationship status.
“In case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.” –Virginia Woolf
“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.” –Franz Kafka
“I know I’m but summer to your heart, and not the four full seasons of the year.” –Edna St. Vincent Millay
“There are all types of love in this world and never the same love twice.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You’ve got a lovely everything.” –Ernest Hemingway
“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.” –Pablo Neruda
“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” –Pablo Neruda (oh la la!)
“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.” –Anais Nin
“You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.” –Anais Nin
“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you’re magic.” –Frida Kahlo
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” –Haruki Murakami
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.” –Haruki Murakami
“I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.” –Henry James
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.” –Leo Tolstoy
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.” –Charles Bukowski
“And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.” –e. e. cummings
Now it’s your turn–share with me your favorite love quotes, love stories, how your current or past loves have inspired you! xxx
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Photo: Fiona McAllister via Flickr / Peaceful Dumpling
