“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”— Sam Keen, amazon.com
“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable”— M. Scott Peck, amazon.com
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”— Maya Angelou, wattpad.com
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”— Maureen Dowd, lifesbestadvice.com
“When that special day comes... You'll be very taken, and very much in love.”— Keishorne Scott, instagram.com
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.”— Robert Bloch, amazon.com
“You lost her and it wasn't because she was hard to hold, or love, or touch but because she was made of your absence, of all the things you ignored and all the beautiful poetry you read but failed to understand”— Robert Drake, amazon.com
“The reason relationships are falling apart in modern times, is because we now have choice. And we’re choosing to be scared. We’re choosing to run from our own vulnerability. We’re choosing to blame others instead of seeing the truth – the opportunity to look inside and grow.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“The problem is not in the girl who needed too much from him or the guy who exuded a fake arrogance to hide his vulnerability. The problem is that these people are mirroring back to us our own issues, and we keep switching people, but WE are the one common denominator. Their neediness, their arroganc…”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“We’re too busy staring at our smart phones and iPads that we don’t even know who we really are. We are over-stimulated, externally-focused and too scared to look inside and find out what lights us up inside, what our fears are, and who we are when the world feels like it’s closing in from the outsid…”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“But because we have grown up in an age where everything is at our fingertips, when we reach out and it’s not easy and it scares us a little – we pull our hands back in and keep moving on. Looking for the next easy thrill in a new connection, not putting in the time to really see and love deeply.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“We have become a society where some people are settling for being treated in a way that is less than they deserve because they’re scared of being alone, and others are not truly letting anyone in or giving them a chance because they’re scared of what those people will find out about them.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com