Live With Excitement: Love that we can not have is the one that last the longest

If you’re not the one for me,
and I still think you’re perfect,
think of how amazing
it will be to find the one who is.
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Days continue to pass,
stars continue to shine.
Why do I have tears in my eyes today
when he was NEVER mine?
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The one who makes me the happiest,
is always the one who is already taken.
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Love… Why does it hurt?
Why does it ache?
Maybe because we love too much and too deep that
sometimes we forget to keep a little for ourselves…
sad but true.
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You never lose by loving. You always lost by holding back.
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Should I smile because he’s my friend,
or cry because that’s all he is?
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Love that we can not have

is the one that last the longest,
hurts the deepest and feels the strongest.

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I am everything you want;
I am everything you need;
I am everything inside of you
that you wish you could be.
I say all the right things,
at exactly the right time,
but I mean nothing to you and I don’t know why?

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A mighty pain to love it is,
And ’tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charlie Brown

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Harold Lokes

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James Matthew Barrie

Perhaps a great love is never returned. ~Dag Hammerskjold

I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always
costs more, and those who fear to love often
find that want of love is an emptiness that robs
the joy from life.

~Merle Shan

Somewhere there must one
Made for this soul, to move it.

~William Johnson Cory

Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile,
And finds in your presence that life is worth while,
So when you are lonely, remember it’s true:
Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.

~Unknown

4. Tennessee Williams

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

5. Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

6. Toni Braxton

How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn’t he catch my falling star? I wish I didn’t wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

9. Herman Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.: Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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 (1860 – 1904)
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.: Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.: Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)
There’s an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there’s an evolutionary imperative why we don’t give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn’t function.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.: David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
There’s a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.: Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), “Comment”
One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.: Euripides (484 BC – 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900), “On Reading and Writing”