We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor RooseveltWhy love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony HopkinsAlas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William ShakespeareWhen men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin FranklinSure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
Matthew McConaugheyWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William Makepeace ThackerayHatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Arthur SchopenhauerCry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.
Abby Lee MillerThere is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark TwainControl thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
EpictetusGoing to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.
Anthony BourdainFirst love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard ShawLet us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George WashingtonMusic was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.
David ByrneI mean… in life… what relationship is easy?
The WeekndDon’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Richard M. NixonHe who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
AristotleI think that you can love people without it being the great love.
Taylor SwiftLove is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel JohnsonExperience is the teacher of all things.
Julius CaesarI have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.
Groucho MarxWhen a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar WildeYour feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.
Taylor SwiftIt’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.
John KennedyKissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
Keanu ReevesOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusGod cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
Mahatma GandhiAlmost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel JohnsonWhen you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
Thich Nhat HanhBitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.
Maya AngelouLove is the one wild card.
Taylor SwiftI am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
J. K. RowlingThere’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.
Steven WrightEvery secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia WoolfI’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.
Taylor SwiftYou have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
Kamala HarrisA man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar WildeActually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.
Audrey HepburnLove is an interesting thing.
Lady GagaNo, I’m not anguished and tormented.
George H. W. BushTravel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis BaconTo go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.
Sunil ChhetriWhen I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
Lana Del ReyMarriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da VinciWe are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Elvis PresleyYou live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas AdamsNobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel JohnsonThe world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest HemingwayActing is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul SartreTheories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea BallouLove 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.
James BaldwinThe world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel JohnsonCulture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mahatma GandhiMy experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
Terry PratchettAt the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
PlatoMen are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard ShawMost damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
Alice WalkerThe first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli