“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”

Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890

PhilosophyWisdom

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.”

William Shakespeare · Sonnet 116, c. 1609

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

Oscar Wilde

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”

Anton Chekhov

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

Joan Crawford

“We are most alive when we are in love.”

John Updike

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

Aristotle

“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.”

William Blake · Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, 1820

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”

Victor Hugo · Les Miserables, 1862

“The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care.”

Emily Dickinson · Letter to Mrs. Joseph Haven, 1852

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

Nicole Krauss · The History of Love, 2005