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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”
― Shana Abe

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
― Confucius

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
― Confucius

“Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.”
― Confucius

“If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”
― Confucius

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
― Confucius

“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
― Confucius

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
― Confucius

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”
― confucius

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
― William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.”
― Kathleen Tessaro

“Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”
― Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses

“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi

“I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.”
― P.C. Cast

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist