Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.AnonymousHoly Bible: New International Version
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.Jalaluddin Rumi
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.HorseradishLemony Snicket
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.Tom Bodett
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Brothers Karamazov
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.Emily BrontëWuthering Heights
I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and SpeechesMartin Luther King Jr.
Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.Eleanor & ParkRainbow Rowell