Love & Dreams 3


Lovers don't meet somewhere along the way; they are in each other all along.

Rumi
The Illustrated Rumi


When you fall in a dream, sometimes you die, sometimes you wake up, and sometimes you learn to fly.

Neil Gaiman
The Sandman

(contributed by Melissa I.)


A faithful friend is a medicine for life.


Forever turned out to be too long.

Julia Ormond
Legends of the Fall


If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right.


We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Woodrow Wilson


When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.

Denton Welch


Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
On Death and Dying


The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.

Katherine Mansfield


The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

Truman Capote
Other Voices, Other Rooms


No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

Henry Louis Mencken


Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.


It's strange how death mocks us, that only in death do we cherish [the ones we love].

Jamie Yeo
Growing Up


Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard


It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle?


Please, Mom and Dad...

My hands are small - I don't mean to spill my milk

My legs are short - Please slow down so I can keep up with you

Don't slap my hand when I touch something bright and pretty - I don't understand

Please look at me when I talk to you - It lets me know you're really listening

My feelings are tender - Don't nag me all day - Let me make mistakes without feeling stupid

Don't expect the bed I made or the picture I draw to be perfect - Just love me for trying

Remember I am a child not a small adult - Sometimes I don't understand what you are saying

I love you so much - Please love me just for being me - Not for the things I can do

© J.L. Richardson


If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

Bern Williams


A heart won't be practical until it can be made unbreakable.

The Wizard of Oz


Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself, wanting to be lost again.

(contributed by Sara)


It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to really forget someone you have grown to love...

(contributed by kaye)


You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beatin' just the same.

Fried Green Tomatoes

(contributed by Kurt Langer)


Beauty that is unaware of itself is the most beautiful.

(contributed by E. T.)


When love ends, ask yourself, "Is it better to forgive than forget or is it better to forget than forgive?"


I would rather have a moment of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.

Steel Magnolias

(contributed by Sarahbug)


I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.

Lucas
Empire Records

(contributed by Brian Fronk)


Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - is essentially poetry.

Michel Leiris


Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike


You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Phaedrus


Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!"

John Greenleaf Whittier


If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.


My only love, sprung from my only hate.

William Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet

(contributed by Pam)


Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.


Better to know the answer, than to live with the question.

Jason Q.


Love isn't a game small children play and forget about when the sun goes down.

Jason Q.


Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful.

Native American proverb


If only I can love you, for loving me...

(contributed by Evelyn A.)


Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven


A mighty pain to love it is,
And it is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains the greatest pain,
It is to love, but love in vain...

Abraha, Cowley


Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Dr. James C. Dobson


There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child... Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

Thomas D. Bailey


Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

Mignon McLaughlin


Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold S. Hubert


The last day of school before summer vacation is the shortest day of a mother's year.

Dee Eldrige


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Kahlil Gibran


I always knew that looking back at my tears would make me laugh, but I never thought that looking back at my laughter would make me cry.

Cat Stevens


I was born when you kissed me, and I died when you left me, but I lived for the two weeks you loved me.

(contributed by Kim)


If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.


Lost in you, I found myself.

Sarah Balodis


Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me.

The Mamas and The Papas

(contribute by Sarah Balodis)


Women would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

Ambrose Bierce
Epigrams


Sometimes, after you've tried everything, breaking up is the best thing to do.

Growing Up


Were we too strong to let our love die or were we just too weak to kill it?

(contributed by Trina)


Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.

I have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just to bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier that they're gone. I don't know... maybe I just miss my friend.

Stephen King
The Shawshank Redemption


If we think of love as in itself the answer to all the problems human beings face, we will constantly be disappointed by it. If we search for perfection in a mate and refuse to be satisfied by anything less than that, we will never really experience sexual or marital love. If we are unwilling to undergo the interpersonal negotiations...we will never be able to give our love to anyone. Since love does not simply happen, as I have been suggesting, it must emerge as the saving remnant of our endless yearning for happy and meaningful lives.

Irving Singer
The Pursuit of Love


Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

Dan Barker


Love is growing old together, contentedly. Sharing a sunset as you've shared your lives. Happy that your worlds are entwined.

Jan Brazill


There are many kinds of love, each satisfying in its own way...

The love of beginnings and of passion, gradually replaced by the steady knowing that another wants to be by your side year in, year out, come what may... the love that you feel when holding your baby in your arms, nuzzling her hair, kissing his neck, knowing it all turned out right when she grows up, when he's taller than you, and being with them all gives you incredible joy... the love for the sweet, soft cats who fill your house and your arms when the nest is empty and your heart is heavy. Love is all of that, and more...

Sandra Feroe


She has fallen asleep
I cradle her in my arms
And watch the soft rain

James Still


I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

Joseph Fiennes


If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.

Griffin Dunne


The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner


The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre
The Secret Pilgrim


Is that love I see in your eyes, or merely a reflection of mine?

(contributed by Skrewtape)


I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

Patti Smith


It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Lin Yutang


A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


Whomever said "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all", never lost.

(contributed by James Park)


You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person see that you're a valuable, estimable person, and that your love is worth something. Then one day you open the paper and glance at the Personals column, and there you see that your loved one has placed an ad... seeking someone worthwhile to love and be loved by.

Daniel Quinn
Ishamel


I know that if I had had a chance to take possession of your soul, I would have made it smile.

Jimmy the Saint
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead


Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

Monica
Friends


A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

Helen Rowland
Reflections of a Bachelor Girl


To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

Walter Benjamin
One-Way Street


A short absence quickens love, a long absence kills it.

Charles De Saint-Evremond


It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.

Georges Courteline
La Philosophie de Georges Courteline


It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.

Marcel Proust
Rememberance of Things Past, The Fugitive


Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

Robert Browning


To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Oscar Wilde


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it… you and you alone make me feel that I am alive... Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

George Moore


Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

George Moore


Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it's letting go.

Sam Ewing


If equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving be me.

Felicity


You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you did; for somehow I know that your feeling for me, however slight it is, is of the nature of love... When you tell me to come, I will come, by the next train, just as I am. This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally by meekness; know that it is a proud surrender to You.

Edna St. Vincent Millay


My old dreams were good dreams that didn't come true but I am glad I had them.

The Bridges of Madison County


If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take if the real thing ever happened.

Holden
Chasing Amy


Everytime she sneezes I believe it's love.

The Counting Crows
Anna Begins
August and Everything After


...at times I almost dream
I too have spent a life the sages' way,
And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance
I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act, a prayer
For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light let in by death,
That life was blotted out-not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain,
Dim memories, as now, when once more seems
The goal in sight again...

Robert Browning
Paracelsus

(recited by Mulder in the X-Files episode "The Field Where I Died")


An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

Ayn Rand
'Philosophical Detection' Philosophy; Who Needs It


I don't know what's worse, finding the love of your life and losing them - or never knowing if you will.

Carerea

(contributed by c.a.b)


If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.

(contributed by Carina)


To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Janeane Garafolo, Mad About You

(contributed by Stacy Morgandorfer)


Do you promise to love me the rest of my life?
No, I'll love you the rest of mine.

Phenomenon


"If it's love," she said, "then we're going to have to think about the consequences."

Counting Crows
Anna Begins

(contributed by Michael)


A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.

(contributed by R.A)


Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlow


He said to me, Bailey, things are changing between us. And at first I thought it was true. But the way I see it, Nothing changes until it changes right?

Scott Wolf (Bailey Salinger)
Party of Five

(contributed by Angie Pearse)


The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. The story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again.

Jimi Hendrix

(contributed by Daniel)


... Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.

Michael Timmins

(contributed by Liv)


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