Favorite quotes

These are some of my favorite quotes, which I've collected on the subjects of passion, strength, hope, desire and love:

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." 
— Anaïs Nin

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." 
— Pablo Neruda 

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.” 
― Anaïs Nin

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” 
― Albert Einstein

"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ" 
— Anaïs Nin

"I desire the things that will destroy me in the end." 
— Sylvia Plath

“The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.” 
― Joss Whedon

"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?" 
— Neil Gaiman 

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." 
— Pablo Neruda

"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." 
— Federico García Lorca

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” 
― Ernest Hemingway

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength." 
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." 
— Pablo Neruda