19 Quotes About The Love You Haven't Found Just Yet

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us...And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re loo…”

— Galway Kinnell, thoughtcatalog.com

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a fr…”

— Gillian Anderson, amazon.com

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”

— Criss Jami, amazon.com

“You’ve got to find what you love...Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it.”

— Steve Jobs, news.stanford.edu

“I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

— Lisa Kleypas, thoughtcatalog.com

“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.”

— A.J. Darkholme, amazon.com

“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”

— Robert Goolrick, amazon.com

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

— Dr. Seuss, reddit.com

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, reddit.com

“You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.com

“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

— Frida Kahlo, reddit.com

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

— Rumi, bbc.co.uk

“Wolves mated for life. Where was he? Where was the echo to her howl, her mate? Was there no other lone wolf, searching the hills for her?”

— Andrea Hurst, amazon.com

“Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.”

— Kristan Higgins, amazon.com

“I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

— Shana Abe, thoughtcatalog.com

“So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.”

— C. Joybell C., thoughtcatalog.com

“A guy out there was meant to be the love of your life, your best friend, your soul mate, the one you can tell your dreams to. He'll brush the hair out of your eyes. Send you flowers when you least expect it. He'll stare at you during the movies, even though he paid $8 to see it. He'll call to say go…”

— Nicholas Sparks, nicholassparks.com

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, go…”

— Bob Marley, amazon.com