"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves."
— Anonymous (Holy Bible: The King James Bible)

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
— Mother Teresa

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."
— David Byrne

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I love you and it's getting worse."
— Joseph Morris

"There are never enough 'I love you's.'"
— Lenny Bruce

"Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal"
— William Shakespeare

"I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love. "
— Dave Eggers (What Is the What)

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

"Music is the universal language of mankind."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

"When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other."
— Rob Sheffield (Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time)

"Music is the only religion that delivers the goods."
— Frank Zappa

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."
— Nicholas Sparks (At First Sight)

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho

"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them."
— Plato (Plato's Republic)

"There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one."
— Rob Sheffield (Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time)

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
— Marion C. Garretty

"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life"
— Pablo Neruda

"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
— Oscar Wilde

"You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man’s last romance."
— Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

"You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together"
— Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat)

"Magic can be found in stolen moments."
— Francesca Lia Block

"Any love that is love is right."
— Francesca Lia Block (Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books)

"Pain can give you sight or make you blind."
— Francesca Lia Block

"What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?"
— Francesca Lia Block (Missing Angel Juan)

"I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be. "
— Francesca Lia Block (Wasteland)

"I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway."
— Francesca Lia Block (Echo)

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
— Paulo Coelho

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo Coelho

"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."
— Paulo Coelho

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things,and only the wise can see them."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"Love simply is."
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuosly until death do them part"
— George Bernard Shaw

"My soul will find yours."
— Jude Deveraux (A Knight in Shining Armor)

"thus with a kiss I die"
— William Shakespeare

"Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now...."
— Nora Roberts (The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex)

"Love is the absence of judgement"
— Dahli Llama

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays)