"I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more."
Maurice Sendak
"So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, to my sleep, my dreams, my labours, my sufferances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger—because I cannot dedicate myself to a fellow being."
Jack Kerouac
"The ultimate happiness in life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself—better still, loved in spite of oneself."
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
"You’re up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion.
It’s a fine spring day.
We’re riding through the woods.
The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue."
It’s a fine spring day.
We’re riding through the woods.
The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue."
Paul McCartney’s final words to his wife Linda before she died of cancer
"Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything."
Ray Bradbury (via lavielivre)
"It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them—and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on—this desperate need—and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other."
Madeleine L’Engle
Perfect Moment
Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel — Perfect Moment
I wasn’t ready for the last time
But wasn’t I supposed to let you go
Into the blue but still I’m holding you
Though you’re a million miles away
There we are in a perfect moment
A perfect moment in time
For a moment you were mine
Life’s adventure is best spent with someone you love. This couple was so cute. They were sitting underneath the tree holding hands for nearly half an hour.
A grandmother’s love.
Al Green — How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
Oldie but a goodie.
I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees
And misty memories of days gone by.
We could never see tomorrow, no one said a word about the sorrow.
"There’s a reason I said I’d be happy alone. It wasn’t ‘cause I thought I’d be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It’s easier to be alone. Because what if you learn you need love and then you don’t have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if you shape your life on it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It’s like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This, it can go on forever."
Meredith, Grey’s Anatomy 7x22 “Unaccompanied Minor”
"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect - you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there."
Bob Marley on how to love a woman
"I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things. But I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS. Follow your passion, follow your heart, and the things you need will come."
Elizabeth Taylor
