His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

James Joyce

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

James A. Michener

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Bob Marley

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent van Gogh

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Addams

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

William Shakespeare

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

E. E. Cummings

He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.

Vladimir Nabokov

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Leo Tolstoy

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

Suzanne Collins

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love

Jane Austen

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

David Byrne

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

Vladimir Nabokov

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Samuel Butler

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

Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.

Kurt Cobain

One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

George Sand

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

Rumi

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Rumi

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marilyn Monroe

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Ayn Rand

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

James Fenimore Cooper

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

John Lennon

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Ray Bradbury

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

Nicholas Sparks

The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

Bette Midler

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Victor Hugo

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

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Johnny Cash

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

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne

You are like nobody since I love you.

Pablo Neruda

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

August Wilson

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Paulo Coelho

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

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

Charles Bukowski

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.

Sinclair Lewis

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Johnny Cash

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

Henrik Ibsen

We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.

George Moore

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Pablo Neruda

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Harper Lee

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

Guy de Maupassant

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is a better master than duty.

Albert Einstein

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Mary Oliver

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Audrey Hepburn

Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

Mario Vargas Llosa

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning