G. H. Hardy photo
Miguel de Unamuno photo

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

To a Young Writer

Pablo Neruda photo

“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”

Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.
"Every Day You Play" (Juegas Todos las Días), XIV, p. 35.
Variant: I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)

Haruki Murakami photo
Mark Nepo photo

“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are”

Mark Nepo (1951) American writer

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

Louisa May Alcott quote: “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Louisa May Alcott photo

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Sophia Loren photo

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.

Leo Tolstoy photo

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”

Source: War and Peace

Kate Bush photo

“If you can't tell your sister,
If you can't tell a priest,
'Cause it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it
To anyone,
Can you tell it to your heart?
Can you find it in your heart
To let go of these feelings…”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

Rumi photo

“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

"Where are we?" in Ch. 2 : Bewilderment
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

Harper Lee photo

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

Pt. 1, ch. 2
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Variant: I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Karl Lagerfeld photo
Gene Simmons photo

“KISS is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.”

Gene Simmons (1949) Israeli-born American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and actor

What I've Learned (July 2002)

Michelangelo Buonarroti photo
Anthony de Mello photo
A.A. Milne photo

“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.

James Baldwin photo

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)

Simone de Beauvoir photo