Love is my religion.​
— John Keats

​This morning, with her, having coffee.
— Johnny Cash (when asked for his definition of paradise)

I am still haunted by the memory of your most recent paintings, full of unfathomable things… I am fully aware that your work of the moment is surpassing that of all others and nearing perfection.
— John Singer Sargent
​(letter to Claude Monet)​

My wish for you Is that this life becomes all that you want it to.  Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small.  You never need to carry more than you can hold.  And while you’re out there gettin’ where you’re gettin’ to.  I hope you know somebody loves you.  And wants the same things too.  Yeah, this is my wish.
— ​Rascal Flatts

I had an epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
— Donna Tartt

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened
— Tom Robbins

it's never too late to be whoever you want to be
​— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live the life you're proud of, if you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

WANTED:
A co-conspirator. Must be willing to spend spend quiet evenings exchanging deep kisses for passwords.

you are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while
​—  Ekhart Tolle

​conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords
​— Pablo Neruda

life is a cha cha... sometimes you gotta just shake shake shake your pompis

the trouble is, you think you have time
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​You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost.
— Haruki Murakami

They told me that to make her fall in love with me I had to make her laugh. but everytime she laughs I'm the one who falls in love
-- Tommaso Ferraris

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
— Jack Kerouac

​And when the fog’s over and the stars and the moon come out at night it’ll be a beautiful sight.
— Jack Kerouac

I have always loved everything about you. Even what I didn't understand.
— Albert Camus

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
— Jack Kerouac

"I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart."

​— L. Frank Baum
​(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
— Gretchen Kemp

I am a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as amazed
as any other
that I have gotten
from there to here
— Charles Bukowski