Read This When You Don't Think Love Will Ever Come Knocking On Your Door

“The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do.”

— Unknown, reddit.com

“Take into account that great love& great achievement involve great risk.”

— Dalai Lama, highexistence.com

“I believe in being good to people. I believe in loving with your whole heart. And I believe in being genuine no matter the circumstances.”

— Reyna Biddy, instagram.com

“Take chances. Take a lot of them. Because honestly: no matter where you end up and with whom, it always ends up just the way it should be. Your mistakes make you who you are. You learn and grow with each choice you make. Everything is worth it. Say how you feel always. Be you, and be okay with it.”

— Unknown, pinterest.com

“Everyone wants a strong woman until you start dating her and realize you have to step your own shit up.”

— Unknown, onsizzle.com

“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”

— Robert Holden, books.google.com

“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”

— Eartha Kitt, amazon.com

“And I found someone it just happened outta the blue and even though I'm moving on, it don't mean that I don't still love you. You'll always have a place here in my heart. But somewhere in this new life I've begun, I found someone. But it took tears and time down on my knees and it's not who you'd ev…”

— Blake Shelton, youtube.com

“At the end of the day darling, you are enough. You always have been. It may have taken you awhile to see that and to finally reach this place, but you have always been enough.”

— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com

“I can feel you through your lonely eyes, and I hope one day you'll understand how everything that hurt us was everything that made us who we are.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“You’ll eventually find love that sticks, love that is mutual and promising. But take your time. Not everyone finds the love that finally feels right while they’re in their twenties. It might take longer, and that’s okay. Know that your path is uniquely yours; maybe sometimes a confusing struggle, bu…”

— Nicole Vetrano, thoughtcatalog.com

“I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow And each road leads you where you want to go And if you’re faced with the choice and you have to choose I hope you choose the one that means the most to you And if one door opens to another door closed I hope you keep on walkin’ ‘til you find the w…”

— Rascal Flatts, play.spotify.com

“I hope never giving up on people isn't going to be my downfall.”

— Leighton Meester, Blair Waldorf, youtube.com

“Being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure.”

— Bob Marley, everydaypowerblog.com

“To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s…”

— Jocelyn Soriano, amazon.com

“Remember, you are not a vessel of sadness; you are not a lost cause.”

— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com

“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”

— Paul McCartney, amazon.com

“She’s had her heart broken, yet she’s not afraid to love; what she is afraid of is wasting any more years of her life loving and supporting a man just to, in the end, have her heart broken and find herself having to start all over again.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, amazon.com

“You are not damaged goods just because you’ve made mistakes in your life. You are not going nowhere just because you haven’t got where you want to go yet. Those are the things you actually are not. Now I want to tell you what you are. You are your own definition of beautiful and worthwhile; that’s w…”

— Taylor Swift, youtube.com

“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“I've been waiting to meet you.”

— Lana Del Rey,

“You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.”

— Anaïs Nin, pinterest.com

“If you’re brave enough to say ‘goodbye,’ life will reward you with a new ‘hello.’”

— Anonymous, raejustrae.tumblr.com

“To find love, you have to be authentic and open. You have to sing your song, that way when someone walks by they can be like ‘That’s my jam’.”

— Daniel Packard, kennedyjene.tumblr.com

“You’re terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”

— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com

“love will come and when love comes love will hold you love will call your name and you will melt sometimes though love will hurt you but love will never mean to love will play no games cause love knows life has been hard enough already”

— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com

“Because the truth is, if you want that big, passionate, all-consuming love, you’re going to have to go after it. You’re going to have to fight for it. You’re going to have to be willing to put yourself out there in a way that could potentially humiliate or break you. And at the end of the day, it mi…”

— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com

“You need to love yourself now, and you need to have faith that you will meet the person you’re meant to be with one day, even if it’s not today.”

— Rachel Connell, thoughtcatalog.com

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

— Iain Thomas, reddit.com

“Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.”

— Kinky Friedman, houstonpress.com