Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

I miss the thought of a forever, you and me. But all you’re missing is my body.

My father, soft as rainclouds, my mother, hard as hail, prepared me to take the world by storm.

I’m fine with the ups and downs in our story as long as the theme is love.

Only snails know there is no rush when you learn to carry home with you.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them-we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

I have imprinted on you and all those miles between us only keep us apart because we let them.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. But the deeper truth is that we don’t entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love’s scarcity.

I want to be loved while I’m here, and the only way to get love is to give love.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.