Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

It occurred to me that love, simply stated, is replacing the need to always be right with the need to be understanding.

I won’t take anyone down if I crawl tonight. But I still let everyone down when I change in size.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

My wish for us all is to love and adore ourselves just as much as we do everyone else!

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

I was a poem, she was a melody, songs emerged between us.

Sometimes the heart is deceiving.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

I’m fading away, you know I used to be on fire.

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.