“Love should build you up, not tear you down. Love should fill you, not drain you. Love should make you feel alive, not suffocate you. Love should make you want to be a better person, not constantly make you tear yourself apart.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can love each other with all your heart but the pain you cause each other from loving so deeply isn’t healthy – it’s painful and poisonous, and it will rip your world apart.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’re going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart.”— Alaric Hutchinson, amazon.com
“Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and breathe.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“The last thing I will ever do is apologize for my ability to love like there's no tomorrow.”— Abirami P. Kurukkal, instagram.com
“There is no substitute for touch, no substitute for love, but reading about someone else's commitment to discovering and admitting their desires was so deeply moving that I sometimes found I was physically shaking as I read.”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“Everyone doesn’t deserve your love, and everyone definitely doesn’t deserve second chances after he or she has hurt you.”— Anne Cohen, elitedaily.com
“I’ll try again if you show me that you’ll try harder too. I want to make sure that the both of us will be able to taste that love again, the second time around, sweeter and lovelier than before.”— Jenesa Chua, thoughtcatalog.com
“I would do anything to have you back. I’d die every day wishing to have that second chance. Another chance to prove my love. Another chance to get to know you. A second chance to start all over again, fresh. A second chance.”— Wing Tjun, thoughtcatalog.com
“Give yourself a second chance, give your parents a second chance, give your friends a second chance, give your passion a second chance, give your love a second chance, give happiness a second chance and give life a second chance.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Second chances are a gift from the universe, you get a second chance to be with someone you love, you get a second chance to prove yourself at work, you get a second chance to be a better person, or a better friend or a better parent.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway... missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place.”— Jamie McGuire, amazon.com
“At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“I can only say I have waited for you through western nights at bus stops in lanes by canals on airfields and the gallows of tears And then you came through the forlorn cities of Europe I recognized you I set out the table for you with wine with bread with mercy but imperturbably you turned your back…”— Ingrid Jonker, amazon.com
“Time, memory, loss, and love are my artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.”— Sally Mann, theguardian.com
“Promises within the air Drowning in love affair The night is young and we are young Run into the bright lights most nights, now or never.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“Bottled up in adolescence Bottom up forbidden essence Twisted up in adolescence Waking up within your arms I feel alive and dangerous You're dangerous, we're dangerous.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“Caught, we were caught up in the high, it was better than drugs. Too high to see that it would all lead to destruction.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“We both know I go too far like when I wrecked your car And almost fought your father when he pushed me in the yard And all those nights we snuck out, like to meet up at the bar Don't worry, my love, we're learning to love But it's hard when you're young.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com