“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”— Lao Tzu, goodreads.com
“My deepest desire is to translate every thought, every emotion, and every dream into a language that was meant for only YOU and I.”— Mariah Gordon-Dyke, larmoyante.tumblr.com
“A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”— Rose Gordon, amazon.com
“And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“Nobody’s lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen - because you love each other.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“I don’t understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it’s all I’ve ever wanted. All I’ve ever known is about leaving or being left.”— Carrie Ryan, amazon.com
“I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”— Lao Tzu, goodreads.com
“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com
“Because I love you more than I can say, If I could tell you I would let you know.”— W. H. Auden, amazon.com
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others.”— John Lennon, goodreads.com