“Love will make you into the best and worst version of yourself, often in the same night.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Relationships
“Finding love is the unconscious motivator for a lot of the things we do. It’s why we work out, it’s why we go to a bar on a Saturday night when we really don’t want to, it’s why we agree to meet strangers off the internet.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, motivation, Relationships
“Everyone wants to be loved. Everyone wants to rely on someone. For a lot of people, it’s their Achilles heel. Love is the reason why they made most of their mistakes.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Equalizer, Mistakes
“Everyone is an idiot when it comes to matters of the heart. Love is the great equalizer. Whenever you feel intimidated by someone’s coolness, just imagine them sobbing in their bedroom after someone broke their heart. I guarantee it’s happened.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Heartbreak, Heartache
“You will never love someone quite the same way you do the first time. In most cases, this is a good thing. The first time is fucking insane.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, First Love, Relationships, Falling In Love
“It is possible to love someone who doesn’t love you back. It’s not a full love, it doesn’t have a whole lot of depth, but it’s still there.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Relationships, Healthy Love
“It’s so painful to have loved someone once and then never again. Sometimes you’ll wish it never happened just so you didn’t know how good it felt. Then you remember that quote ‘It’s better to have loved and lost than to have ever loved at all’ and you’re like, ‘okay, fine.'”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, humor, Breakups, Pain, Relationships
“Falling in love is nature’s drug and you can OD on it.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Drug, Relationships, Infatuation, Obsession