“Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.”
– James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
“Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.”
– James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
“This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender…”
– Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
“Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as it was alluring, a bauble that could shatter as soon as it was grasped.
Tenderness was a different story. It had staying power and the promise of a future.”
– Robyn Donald, Tiger, Tiger
“You don’t blast a heart open,” she said. “You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.”
– Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
“I think it’s impossible to really know someone, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
– Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.”
– Craig Ferguson
“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”
– The Dalai Lama XIV