"Just because someone does not love you..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.”

“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”

“If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.”

“They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.”

“One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.”

“Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”

“Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.”

“I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”