The best things in life make you sweaty.

Edgar Allan Poe

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

Charles Bukowski

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

Vladimir Nabokov

To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".

Ayn Rand

It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.

Mae West

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Milan Kundera

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Audrey Hepburn

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Rumi

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Derek Walcott

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

J. K. Rowling

We must love one another or die

W. H. Auden

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.

Meg Cabot

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

David Byrne

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

Johnny Cash

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Doris Lessing

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.

Toni Morrison

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

Pablo Neruda

The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

Ava Gardner

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

August Wilson

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Rumi

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Nick Hornby

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Paulo Coelho

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

William Shakespeare

You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

Suzanne Collins

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

Nicholas Sparks

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Henry Van Dyke

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

Joss Whedon

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

August Wilson

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Jane Austen

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

Shel Silverstein

Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Charles Bukowski

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

David Byrne

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

Danielle Steel

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything

Katharine Hepburn

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

Tupac Shakur

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

C. S. Lewis

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

Paulo Coelho

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Zora Neale Hurston

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Ayn Rand

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street

W. H. Auden

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

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

Willa Cather

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Haruki Murakami

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Emily Brontë