Simone de Beauvoir

To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.

You first.’ The only way love works.

Crack me open and get drunk on the contents of my spirit. Warning: consuming too much may have permanent effects.

Love those you hate you.

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but ‘safe’ isn’t one of them.

If we are simply energy, neither created or destroyed, and if a body is just a body, celestial or not, why don’t you come over here and we will make collisions out of moments.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.

“Any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I’m sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.” – Gladys Bagg Taber

Women should serve men. Men should serve women. Any house of peace is full of servants.

You demonstrate love by giving it unconditionally to yourself. And as you do, you attract others into your life who are able to love you without conditions.

Love is only one fine star away.