When You Doubt Love and Need Something to Believe In Read This

“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the…”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“Our hearts will break – time and time and time again – over the course of our feeble existences. But they never break irreparably. They never shatter in ways we can’t fix. Our hearts are stronger than all of the things that ever break them, if we give them permission to be.”

— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”

— Maya Angelou, poemhunter.com

“I want to kiss the kindness inside you. I want you to be loved in the exact way you love. We’re both ready with our, “You met me at a really weird time in my life…” monologues and I want to rehearse lines with you.”

— Ari Eastman, Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com

“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

“Love is supposed to change you, and it will. This is how we determine the quality of a relationship: by the person we become when we're in it. People always say the opposite – that you should never change for someone else – but with the right person, you will evolve rapidly. The right person will sh…”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

“The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or…”

— Melanie Williams, melaniejwilliams.com

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”

— Erica Jong, amazon.com

“What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com

“Will it hurt? Will it matter if it does?”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, amazon.com

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it, do it, don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever”

— Brooke Davis, amazon.com

“Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.”

— Tammara Webber, amazon.com

“Remember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and you'll continue to be art even when he's gone.”

— Charlotte Geier, annaheritage.tumblr.com

“it is a tuesday when i love someone who doesn’t love me. no, it’s not the first time, but it’s a sad time. oh, it’s always a sad time but my heart doesn’t listen, doesn’t understand, soars like a child in a rocket ship, doesn’t believe in gravity. doesn’t believe in learning a lesson. wants to give…”

— Yena Sharma Purmasir, fly-underground.tumblr.com

“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“You torment yourself wondering how they could not love your burning heart; and the answer is darling, you are not the star you thought you were. You are the fucking universe.”

— Marimontoya, marimontoya.tumblr.com

“I know I'm not going to be able to change the world, but I think it's important to try to make a difference.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com