“Give yourself permission to feel okay. This is why we love when other people love us - because it lets us flip the mental switch that gives us permission to be happy, proud, excited or content.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Instead of thinking you are someone who is attractive and successful, learn to think of yourself as someone who is resilient, hungry for new experiences, capable of deeply loving others, and so on.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If you believe you're the kind of person who can bear pain or loss, you will be the kind of person who can bear pain or loss. If you believe you're worthy of love, you will experience love when it comes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Committing, sacrificing, trying and trying again for the people you love and the things you believe in are what make a life feel worthwhile. Meeting your own needs is the first step, not the ultimate goal.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You will not be ready when the love of your life comes along. You also probably won't be ready when you see the listing for your dream job or to buy a house or maybe have a kid or maybe quit that job and try to write the book you keep thinking about or get sick or lose a relative or die yourself. If…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Most people assume that when they have someone who loves them, they'll think they're worthy of love. When they have money, they'll have a different attitude about it. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Your mind creates; it is not created.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If you think love is something that exists anywhere but within your own mind and heart, you will never have it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“When we think other people love us, we give ourselves permission to feel love.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“People cannot transmute emotions, which is interesting to consider when you realize how utterly consumed the human race is with the concept of getting other people to love us.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“[Think about] how love would save your life if it were capable of doing such things (It is).”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“'I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer,' said Mrs. Maylie; 'I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.'”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”— Cassandra Clare, kcorley92.tumblr.com
“And in the end, we were all just humans… Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, kcorley92.tumblr.com
“Love and heartbreak are on two ends of the same spectrum; to know one, you must know the other. Know that if you are feeling sad and in the dark, things can only get better and brighter.”— Kirsten Corley, kcorley92.tumblr.com
“But that’s okay. I think first loves are the strongest, because it is that love that teaches you, how far you’d be willing to go, for a another human being. It’s that love that teaches you to never do it again.”— Kirsten Corley, kcorley92.tumblr.com
“I understand how people can fear love, the idea of opening up to someone and being vulnerable to pain is a part of the risk that comes with loving. But when you find the right love, you’ll realize the risk is worth it”— DaisyRainee, kcorley92.tumblr.com