-Albus Dumbledore in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
(more…)Loved Ones
1061 – “A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family’s love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.”
1048 – “But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the wind of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
-Khalil Gibran
(more…)1004 – “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
-Anaïs Nin
(more…)980 – “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.”
-anonymous
(more…)961 – “Someone I loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
-Mary Oliver
(more…)937 – “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
-C S Lewis
(more…)933 – We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
-Robert Fulghum
(more…)899 – “Years of love have been forgot in the fever of a minute.”
883 – “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
–anonymous
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