“Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Let each one of you be alone, as the strings of a lute are alone, though they quiver with the same music. Stand together, yet not too near together:…”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media…”— Richard Foster, amazon.com
“I want to kiss the kindness inside you. I want you to be loved in the exact way you love. We’re both ready with our, “You met me at a really weird time in my life…” monologues and I want to rehearse lines with you.”— Ari Eastman, Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Broken hearts — if used wisely and compassionately — are absolutely necessary for spreading the fire of love.See, when your heart breaks open, all the love that has been hidden and buried within it for years has the opportunity to now spill forth — and to cover everyone around you with love...and al…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, facebook.com
“So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense... spring.”— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, thebakerypoetry.com
“if you are broken and they have left you do not question whether you were enough the problem was you were so enough they were not able to carry it.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“our toothbrushes sitting in a cup on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing I have ever known.”— Fortesa Latifi, amazon.com
“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has be…”— John Green, amazon.com
“I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d g…”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradics.tumblr.com
“Because on the other side of rejection, on the other side of that moment you question if you should say something, there comes bravery from within that allows you to continue with words you might regret. But under the surface is hope. Under the surface you wonder, can they reciprocate these intense…”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are hard to look at not because you glow, but because you are the drop off of a skyscraper. You are the distance to the ground, you are what people fear to fall into, you are what people risk their lives to see. And when someone does finally see you, it is because they were courageous enough to…”— Lillian Shelton, helladopeprncs.tumblr.com
“Many prevailing methods of choosing a romantic partner aim first to detect negative qualities: The checklist method focuses on superficial negative qualities, while seeking to identify major flaws offers more profound results. A third approach, discerning whether a partner will bring out the best in…”— Aaron Ben-Zeév, psychologytoday.com
“So may you find in each other what you came here for. And trust that this is love because it is (love is trust). And tangled lives you may lead but into each other, never apart, 'till you cannot distinguish between being and being together.”— Iain Sinclair Thomas, amazon.com
“When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. Fo…”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“Let’s skip the pleasantries and obligated polite remarks. I want to know you... Tell me. I am not afraid of your ghosts.”— Myrtle Yvonne, germmagazine.com
“What if I told you that I know you think of me every time you are with her? What if I told you I know that you miss me late at night when she’s next you?”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com