“I’d rather not love anyone, he thought. I’d rather have fun. And fun, his good side said to him, you have no fun when you do not love.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“They’re together, but I don’t think they’re happy. I know Mum definitely isn’t.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“The first night living together, we piled our suitcases in the corner; warmed up a frozen pizza, and sat crisscross applesauce under a broken coffee table, drank water in paper cups, and tried to imagine how our lives would grow within these walls. We were two lovers living on the floor, bare rooms…”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com
“No one is perfect...absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.”— Richard Simmons, buzzfeed.com
“When you love someone… truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt—you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painful…”— Sherrilyn Kenyon, amazon.com
“It’s not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It’s that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It’s not a weakness. It’s your best strength.”— Patrick Ness, amazon.com
“I pray you’re ok. That it’s okay. I pray all the parts of you that I remember are still there. I pray that you’re happy. Even if it’s not with me.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“Love is strange. It’s an acute kind of loneliness, isn’t it? That constant yearning for the other person. That hunger. I didn’t think it was possible but there it was. It’s not pleasure but pain.”— Candy Gourlay, amazon.com
“I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.”— Cynthia Hand, amazon.com
“I hope you find the kind of love where a single touch can calm your tormented soul.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“I don’t believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it’s unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another’s joy, development, or uniqu…”— Leo Buscaglia, peopleandpossibilities.com
“I wish I had a someone who would observe me silently, who would capture all my habits and quirks, and still love me. Someone that would get lost in how my fine features define my face, while smiling or crying, and still love me.”— Elay Neal Moses, goodreads.com
“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.”— Michael Ende, amazon.com
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.”— Unknown, twitter.com
“Maybe one day you’ll come back. Maybe you never will and that’ll suck, but you can’t keep doing this. The blame and the self-loathing and the bull[crap]. I can’t watch that. It makes me hate you for hating yourself. I don’t want to lose you. But I’d rather lose you if it means you’ll be happy. I thi…”— Katja Millay, amazon.com
“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com