I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
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I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise... L.M. MONTGOMERY I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mo... CHARLIE PUTH Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I wil... LIZ NEWMAN [love is like] Someone is camping in your head HELEN FISHER Love doesn't want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn't value obedience over all else... STACEY JAY "May the strings of love play on in your heart and soul, creating beautiful music." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that,... ALLY CONDIE I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the d... NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the... 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JOHN GREEN You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind... THOMAS R. STEAGALD I shall now call myself; I shall now call. In the forest of my heart, seeing myself, ... SRI CHINMOY I am lost in love. I have lost in love. But both have only strengthened my quest for love, and the n... AZMATH PASHA Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing... THOMAS à KEMPIS I have always loved art and architecture, in fact, that has always been my first love, never acting ... DWAYNE HICKMAN When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest bette... C.S. LEWIS My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart ... STEVE MARABOLI Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I love my God, but with no love of mine For I have... MME. GUYON I'll never tell you to stop loving. 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PAULO COELHO Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…” Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love ... COCO J. GINGER The love from a mother will never be lost in her child’s heart. It may only be a victim and fogged... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic lov... TRACEY EMIN On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there... HENRY DRUMMOND Im in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inev... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? UNKNOWN I have never been in love before," Julian said. "You're my first-and you'll be my only. L.J. SMITH Falling in love through the internet is falling in love with the idea of being in love. 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TOM STOPPARD As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an ex... TOM STOPPARD I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write o... TOM STOPPARD When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, bu... TOM STOPPARD I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have... TOM STOPPARD My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally ... TOM STOPPARD Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. TOM STOPPARD There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man... TOM STOPPARD Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual... TOM STOPPARD I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge We... TOM STOPPARD GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista... TOM STOPPARD A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. TOM STOPPARD There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ... TOM STOPPARD Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro... TOM STOPPARD Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin... TOM STOPPARD One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that... TOM STOPPARD The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. TOM STOPPARD You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the ... TOM STOPPARD Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by on... TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag... TOM STOPPARD As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it... TOM STOPPARD All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and... TOM STOPPARD We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. TOM STOPPARD Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. ... TOM STOPPARD