Nicholas Sparks Zitate

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„Vielleicht stimmt es ja, dass die Natur den Menschen manchmal Zeichen schickte. Und dieses Zeichen hieß: Man darf nicht vergessen, dass auf Verzweiflung wieder Freude und Glück folgen.“

„Das wahre Kunstwerk war der Weg, den ich und Ruth gegangen sind – den man Leben nennt.“

„Aber Liebe, das habe ich inzwischen begriffen, ist mehr als drei Worte, die man kurz vor dem Einschlafen murmelt. Liebe muss sich täglich beweisen. Sie muss sich in allem, was wir tun, wiederspiegeln, voller Zärtlichkeit, jeden Tag.“

„Ich weiß nicht, dass sich die Liebe ändert. Menschen ändern sich. Die Umstände ändern sich.“

„Liebe ist wie der Wind. Man kann sie nicht sehen, aber fühlen.“

„… Ich verstand endlich, was wahre Liebe wirklich bedeutete … diese Liebe bedeutete, dass Sie sich mehr um das Glück einer anderen Person als um Ihr eigenes kümmern, egal wie schmerzhaft die Entscheidungen sein mögen, denen Sie gegenüberstehen.“

„Ich liebe dich. Ich bin, wer ich bin, wegen dir. Sie sind jeder Grund, jede Hoffnung und jeder Traum, den ich jemals hatte, und egal, was uns in Zukunft widerfährt, jeder Tag, an dem wir zusammen sind, ist der größte Tag meines Lebens. Ich werde für immer Dein sein.“

„Und als ihre Lippen meine trafen, wusste ich, dass ich hundert Jahre alt werden und jedes Land der Welt besuchen könnte, aber nichts würde jemals mit dem einen Moment vergleichbar sein, in dem ich das Mädchen meiner Träume zum ersten Mal küsste und wusste, dass meine Liebe dauern würde für immer.“

„Erstens muss man etwas lieben, um es zu hassen.“

„Jede große Liebe beginnt mit einer großen Geschichte ...“

„Wenn du dich das erste Mal verliebst, dann verändert es dein Leben für immer, und wie sehr du dich auch bemühst, das Gefühl geht nie vorbei.“

„Du bist die Antwort auf jedes Gebet, das ich angeboten habe. Du bist ein Lied, ein Traum, ein Flüstern, und ich weiß nicht, wie ich so lange ohne dich leben konnte.“

„Du bist mein bester Freund und mein Geliebter, und ich weiß nicht, welche Seite von dir mir am besten gefällt. Ich schätze jede Seite, so wie ich unser gemeinsames Leben geschätzt habe.“

„I understand, Ira.“

„Sie entsann sich, wie sie an einem heißen Julitag unter dem Baum gesessen hatte an der Seite von jemandem, der sie mit solchem Verlangen angesehen hatte, daß nichts sonst Bedeutung hatte. Und in jenem Augenblick hatte sie sich zum ersten Mal verliebt.“

„Gedichte wurden nicht geschrieben, um analysiert zu werden. Sie sollten nicht den Verstand, sondern die Gefühle ansprechen, sollten inspirieren und anrühren.“

„Die Liebe sagte über diejenigen, die liebten, viel mehr aus als über die, die geliebt wurden.“

„Liebe bedeutet, dass das Glück des anderen wichtiger ist als das eigene Glück, gleichgültig, wie schmerzlich die Entscheidungen sind, die man treffen muss.“

„Liebe ist das wichtigste Gefühl. Ohne Liebe sind wir gar nichts.“

„Wenn ich schlafe, träume ich von dir und wenn ich aufwache, sehne ich mich danach, dich in meinen Armen zu halten. Wenn überhaupt, hat unsere Auszeit mich nur sicherer gemacht, dass ich meine Nächte an deiner Seite verbringen möchte und meine Tage mit deinem Herzen.“

„Du bist und immer warst mein Traum.“

„Sie haben immer eine Wahl. Es ist nur so, dass manche Leute die falsche machen.“

„Ohne Leiden gäbe es kein Mitleid.“

„Wenn Sie mit etwas zu kämpfen haben, schauen Sie sich alle Menschen um Sie herum an und stellen Sie fest, dass jede einzelne Person, die Sie sehen, mit etwas zu kämpfen hat.“

“Kids are people, too, and once they start getting older, they make their own decisions. There's only so much you can do.”

“…having children changes your life like nothing else. It'll be the hardest and best thing you've ever done.”

“Was living together a step toward the future or just a way to continue the present?”

“…people who are grieving have to want to move on--that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.”

“…she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?”

“"What's your horse's name?""Horse.""Sophia waited for the joke, but it didn't come. "You call your horse 'Horse'?""He doesn't mind.""You should give him a noble name. Like Prince or Chief or something.""It might confuse him now.""Trust me. Anything is better than Horse. It's like naming a dog Dog.""I have a dog named Dog. Australian Cattle Dog." He turned, his expression utterly matter-of-fact. "Great herder.""And your mom didn't complain?""My mom named him."”

“Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two could accomplish separately. Only time, however, could show whether you'd been accurate in your judgment.”

“…suddenly certain that what he was doing now was the sole reason he'd been placed on this earth. To love another. To care for someone else, to help another person, to carry her worries until she was strong enough to carry them on her own. To care for someone unconditionally, for in the end that was what gave life meaning.”

“…people always said that parenting and worrying were synonymous…”

“…She had the rare ability to be exactly what people needed when she was with them and yet still remain true to herself.”

“Our stories are funny because we lived them, and we survived them. The worse the incident was when it was happening, the funnier the story had become to us over the years.”

“You're doing the best you can, right? Isn't that what we always tell each other?”

“It isn't easy living with an author. I know this because my wife has informed me of this fact.”

“He had not only known that I would be coming to see him, I realized, but had anticipated the reason for my visit. And in typical southern fashion, he'd given me the answer to my problem, without my ever having to ask him directly.”

“Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spelled trouble for the women who loved them.”

“It was the way you looked at me while I looked at the art that changed me. It is you, in other words, who changed.”

“…he had the sense that they were both lonely, albeit in different ways. He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.”

“Thinking back, he recalled events he wished he could change, tears he wished had never been shed, time that could have been better spent, and frustrations he should have shrugged off. Life, it seemed, was full of regret, and he yearned to turn back the clock so he could live parts of his live over again. One thing was certain: He should have been a better husband.”

“[Written on back of photograph of Ruth and Daniel]
"Ruth Levinson
Third grade teacher.
She believes in me and I can be anything I want when I grow up.
I can even change the world."”

“I tell Ryan that God gave him a brother like Miles so that Ryan could learn that anything is possible and that he can be good at anything. And I tell Miles that God gave him Ryan so that Miles could learn patience and persistence and how to overcome challeges.”

“He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'…'Blessed are the lazy who lie in boats, for they shall inherit a suntan.”

“He loved his wife but hated what life with her had become, cursing himself for even thinking this way.”

“Work, spirituality, family, friendships, health--you can't ignore any of them or it'll get you in the end.”

“But trust me when I say that memories are funny things. Sometimes they're real, but other times they change into what we want them to be… But like I said, she's hurting, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that people in pain don't always see things as clearly as they should… And if it somehow doesn't work out between you, then you've got to understand that you can't look back anymore. It'll destroy you in the end, and destroy her as well. Neither one of you can keep living with regret, because it drains the life right out of you, and the very idea is enough to break my heart.”

“Why? Do you want to rescue me, too, Taylor? … That's what you're trying to do, isn't it? … I appreciate what you're trying to do, but it's not what I need right now. I need to handle this my own way.”

“You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me to believe that you're doing it just to hurt me. If there's one thing I've come to know about you, it's that you're not even capable of something like that. Why do you think I like spending time with you so much? Because you're a good guy. A nice guy.”

“While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that would never change.”

“Parents might believe themselves to be the bosses, but in the end it was the kids who made the rules.”

“My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.”