What's the difference between love and obsession? Didn't both make you stay up all night, wandering the streets, a victim of your own imagination, your own heartbeat? Didn't you fall into both, headfirst into quicksand? Wasn't every man in love a fool and every woman a slave? Love was like rain: it turned to ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, 'Dear you, good-bye from me'. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held d... ELLEN BASS I love you in my very own way. Like a stone loves the mosses around it Like a sea loves th... ARZUM UZUN Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i... NEIL GAIMAN Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i... YUN KOUGA Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ... NEIL GAIMAN The Thing Is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you'v... BONNIE SHIMKO A Gift for You I send you... The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p... S.A.R.K. My daddy used to tell me 'the first time you fall in love it changes your life forever, and no matte... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't love me, Sebastian. You don't have any idea what love really is. You can't love anyone or ... TERRY GOODKIND Q: How do you fall in love? You don't fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like... JEANETTE WINTERSON You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you.... JOHN O'DONOHUE Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and... NEIL GAIMAN Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes. Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ... JOSé N. HARRIS We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce a... JAY WOODMAN It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. NAPOLEON HILL I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wo... DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wo... D. H. LAWRENCE My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it clin... CHARLES BUKOWSKI You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay wit... LUCY CHRISTOPHER Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ... NEIL GAIMAN Emma:“He broke your heart! How can you call it love when he hurt you so badly?” Kellan... JAY ASHER Stand in the sunshine of love. Bathe in the beauty that is life, that is you. Put love into everythi... AKIROQ BROST You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. No one can take your ability to love away from you. You may go through a period of pain. You may eve... AKIROQ BROST You know how it goes: at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and... KAMAND KOJOURI It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wom... D.H. LAWRENCE You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip let it go say ”I give up” o... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Heaven left a hole in your heart. But it’s up to you to choose if that hole will be fi... TESSA SHAFFER If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to ... JENIFER LEWIS If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so th... LISA KLEYPAS So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we... LAUREN MYRACLE If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it. KYLE CHANDLER It's no good fooling about with love you know. You can't fall into it like a soft job without dirtyi... JOHN OSBORNE When you fall asleep and dream of love, it becomes your morning glory as if you spent a night in hea... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Love doesn't give you very many choices. When you love someone, you just want to be with them. If th... ALYSHA SPEER You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori... TOMOKO HAYAKAWA Life depends on you and your choices. The real value of your life largely depends on what you do wit... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Just like money, hobbies make you feel good but it comes and goes.
Passion for something knocks you ... CARLOS GOUVEIA But entertaining isn't a sport or a competition. It's an act of love, if you let it be. You can twis... SHAUNA NIEQUIST A weird thing happens when you get a glimpse of that side of you. A child-like zeal possesses you. I... K.J. KILTON All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in... SAMUEL JOHNSON His voice gentled and his touch became more like a caress. "I love you," he whispered. "Romeo.... CAMBRIA HEBERT He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the gr... KRISTIN CASHORE But God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heav... C.S. LEWIS Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.... KAHLIL GIBRAN I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,... EMORY R. FRIE You see her and ascend into love. You become enchanted, a found madman. In yo... KAMAND KOJOURI Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a paint... RAY BRADBURY It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatb... TOM ROBBINS Love is not a chore or a routine. It's not something you schedule in your calendar. Love takes compr... JOY MANISCALCO I ask the impossible: love me forever. Love me when all desire is gone. Love me with the s... ANA CASTILLO Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this... MELODY BEATTIE I have known friendship love, parental love, romantic love, family love and unrequited love in my li... SHANNON L. ALDER Love is like a balloon.. when you push your relationship with someone forward it is like blowing up ... CRYSTAL SOUTHERLAND Love is when you find something so great, so . . . necessary, that it becomes more important to y... DAN WELLS You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engross... KATE FORSYTH Not to be with the one you love, Laura, the one person you should be spending your life with--it’s... HARRIET EVANS Make time for yourself. How are you spending your time? Are you doing the things you love?Are you ma... AKIROQ BROST Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it we... PETER CRAIG You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage. TONY CLEAVER Never make your home in a place -- make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what y... TAD WILLIAMS Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you... TAD WILLIAMS You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo... DONALD MILLER IT’S A FUNNY THING TO be the product of a fairy-tale romance. It’s another thing to think you mi... KIERA CASS Seize the day. Tomorrow is not promised. Life happens now in this moment. Make it an adventure. Do s... AKIROQ BROST 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa... PHILIP T. M. Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what... TAD WILLIAMS You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to... UMBERTO ECO A woman’s heart is her prized possession and if she shares it with you, consider yourself blessed.... SANJO JENDAYI There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U... ANGIE KARAN Some souls are just ...There. They are a constant in your world. You know, no matter what, they... VIRGINIA ALISON All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An... 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 Who knows how to make love stay? 1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush ... TOM ROBBINS A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough to call you... LEONARD COHEN You know nothing says love like a man holding a bucket, waiting for you to hurl into it." SHERRILYN KENYON Drop down someone else's shoe and run to take your own quickly. Don't hire your own to anybody, else... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick i... NORA ROBERTS The thing about love is most only find their way into our hearts, but every now and again one will f... LAUREN VALENCIA Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting t... HENRY ROLLINS No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ... JAMES MARSDEN There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to l... JOHN CONNOLLY When you sing it in meditation technique it harmonizes your own life -- you make the connection with... DOUG WHITE Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for a... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Who was it that hurt you, stole light out of your eyes? Cut a hole in your heart and ... JOHN MARK GREEN CALL YOURSELF Look deep in the mirror And say: 'I LOVE YOU' And immediately SUZY KASSEM Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in ... BEN OKRI Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook. ALEX GUARNASCHELLI I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-... ADAM GREEN
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REID HOFFMAN Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is s... REID HOFFMAN The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the... REID HOFFMAN Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to sca... REID HOFFMAN You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. REID HOFFMAN Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it. REID HOFFMAN Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location. REID HOFFMAN Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really po... REID HOFFMAN One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Act... REID HOFFMAN If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumpi... PAUL HOFFMAN Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in... PAUL HOFFMAN There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then... MARY HOFFMAN The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe... ANDREW HOFFMAN Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year. ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500... ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ... ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w... ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone.... ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it. ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything. ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources... REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive... PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun. ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time). ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all. ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer. ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible... AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes... AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate. AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug. AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit. AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get. AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your... AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil... ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow... REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ... REID HOFFMAN