There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

Love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Nicholas Sparks

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

Guy de Maupassant

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

J. M. Coetzee

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.

Suzanne Collins

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Hunter S. Thompson

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

Isaac Asimov

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

Paulo Coelho

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Mary Oliver

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Mother Teresa

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

C. S. Lewis

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I was adored once too.

William Shakespeare

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Haruki Murakami

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Rumi

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

William Shakespeare

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Simone de Beauvoir

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Gustave Flaubert

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.

Woody Allen

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

Charles M. Schulz

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Paulo Coelho

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

Simone de Beauvoir

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Charles Bukowski

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Marcel Proust

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

William Shakespeare

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Maya Angelou

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

E. E. Cummings

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Audrey Hepburn

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Albert Einstein

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Sylvia Plath

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

Pablo Neruda

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Virginia Woolf

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Arundhati Roy

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Charles Dickens

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

Ben Okri

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Doris Lessing

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Hunter S. Thompson

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Anne Sexton

Life is too short to be lived badly.

Marjane Satrapi

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow