“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that. I am better than that... Goodbye.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“Maybe that's what love was, finding the person who brings out the best in you and eliminates the worst.”— Diana Holquist, amazon.com
“Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“You're right, it is complicated, isn't it? I mean, you're in love with April, who used to be in love with Lucas, and then she fell in love with you, but you were in love with Summer, who was always really in love with Hampton, and now that you're in love with April she's in love with Kevin... and no…”— Abigali Breslen, Maya Hayes, Abigail Breslin, amazon.com
“Just shut up! Here... I wanna marry you because you're the first person I wanna look at when I wake up in the morning, and the only one I wanna kiss goodnight. Because the first time that I saw these hands, I couldn't imagine not being able to hold them. But mainly, when you love someone as much as…”— Ryan Reynolds, Will Hayes, Ryan Reynolds, amazon.com
“I kept the book, because it was the only thing that I had left of you.”— Ryan Reynolds, Will Hayes, Ryan Reynolds, amazon.com
“You aren't afraid of love. You're afraid of all the junk you've yoked to love. And you've convinced yourself that withholding one tiny word...will shield you from that junk. But it won't. We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or n…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Somehow we’ve been convinced that we are protecting ourselves, that life is better and easier by holding tightly to our love. Sometimes it is easier. But it is never better. And sometimes it takes making a choice every day, every moment, but it’s worth it. Choosing the thrill, the vulnerability, the…”— Alison Motroni, thoughtcatalog.com
“We work so hard to keep our hearts from getting hurt. We stay in our hometowns so as to guarantee we never love a new place. We become attached to routines that leave no room for our hearts to get involved. And we keep our hearts hidden from people we want to love. By playing hard-to-get-me games wi…”— Alison Motroni, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t be frightened to give your love away. Don’t think that to give love away means to use it up. Don’t buy the lie that if you are too generous with your love it will run out. It won’t. You don’t have to ration it or hold it tight to your chest. Loosen your grip. Every time you choose to give love…”— Alison Motroni, thoughtcatalog.com
“I won’t be timid, won’t overthink, won’t stand on the edge and hold myself back. Because even if I end up at a loss, I gave my everything to something I wanted, someone I wanted. And that’s still beautiful.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“I used to think that only the weak wear their hearts on their sleeves and fall in love. But now I know, it’s not the ones that are in love who are weak but instead the ones who are too afraid to. So, don’t be afraid of love. Fall in love, fall hard and when you’re lying on the ground, bruised and br…”— Addriey Jones, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know you, I know your type. You tip-toe around the people who show potential interest. You keep a fair distance from the people who brush their fingers against yours and the ones who look at you in the way everyone wants to be looked at. You do all you can to push away the people that could love y…”— Addriey Jones, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are an independent woman. A woman with a strong heart and passionate soul. You cannot let go of that part of you, the part that decides for herself, finds strength in her ability to stand alone. Yet you cannot be afraid to love. You cannot be afraid to embrace that ridiculously emotional side of…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“You let him in. You feel weak, dependent, breakable. You have become the woman that let a man in, who trusted him, who can easily be crushed by the same hands that touch her. So you swing to the other side. You pull away. You spend time alone, just recharging, remembering that sense of self. Letting…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“You love with a passion that’s sickening. A consuming, knotting, mess of emotion that interweaves you with another person.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with passion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”— Yehuda Berg, values.com
“Life is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.”— Shannon L. Alder, amazon.com