Favorite Inspiring Quotes - Love, Fear
“How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh”
― A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
― Victor Hugo
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
― Albert Einstein
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa
“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
― Stephenie Meyer (The Host)
“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”
― Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil)
“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”
I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”
― Andrew Boyd (Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe)
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum (True Love)
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Airman's Odyssey)
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi
“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
― Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
"That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
― John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
― Joan Crawford
“Loving someone requires a leap of faith, and a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
― Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde (Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories)
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
― Mother Teresa
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
“I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose.”
― Charlotte Eriksson (Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps)
“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)
“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth (Divergent)
“Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth (Divergent)
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
― Veronica Roth (Divergent)
“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth (Divergent)
“Dare to Be
When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.
When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.
When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.
When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.
When times are tough, dare to be tougher.
When love hurts you, dare to love again.
When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.
When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.
When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.
When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.
When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.
When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.
Dare to be the best you can –
At all times, Dare to be!”
― Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― William G.T. Shedd
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein
“Never give up...No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum
