Someday someone will come into your life and love you the way you’ve always wanted. If your someday was yesterday, learn. If your someday is tomorrow, hope. If your someday is today, cherish.

—Unknown

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

—James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

(Source: theblackquill)

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

—James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

(Source: theblackquill)

Mumford and Sons, Winter Winds

Mumford and Sons, Winter Winds

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

The End, The Beatles

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

Everyone says that love hurts, but that’s not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these with love, but really love is the one thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again.

—Unknown

The Six Types of Love

  1. Eros - a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love; literally the love of Beauty
  2. Ludus - a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once; infidelity is common
  3. Storge - an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity; 
  4. Pragma - love that is driven by the head, not the heart; carefully weighing the costs and rewards of a relationship
  5. Mania - obsessive love; experience great emotional highs and lows; very possessive and often jealous lovers
  6. Agape - selfless altruistic love; spiritual; self-sacrificing, all-encompassing love that believes itself to be unconditional

(Source: Wikipedia, via alittle-birdie)

You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. Then you meet one person and your life is changed. Forever.

Love And Other Drugs, 2010

‘Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

—Jeanette Winterson

“Distance does to love what wind does to fire: it extinguishes the weak and feeds the strong.”