“The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others. Go thou and do likewise!”— John Wesley, en.wikiquote.org
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“It wasn’t just me, and it wasn’t just him, it was what we were together that was the exception.”— Jamie McGuire, amazon.com
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Nobody’s lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen - because you love each other.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“I appreciate effort. No matter how small, silly or irrelevant, I appreciate effort.”— billy chapata., twitter.com
“It's the little things she needs someone for, like someone to hold her hand at the end of a long day, or someone to watch stupid comedies with, or someone to curl up with on the couch on a lazy Sunday morning as she reads the newspaper and eats her cereal.”— Marla Miniano, amazon.com
“You told me once that a soul isn’t something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.”— Chad Harbach, amazon.com
“You have to understand that sometimes you can do everything in your power to make something happen, and it’s just not meant to be. You can give yourself to a person, to a circumstance, to a situation, and end up empty, simply because it wasn’t meant for you.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“The person you deserve will make it obvious. They will put in the effort. It should be effortless. Relationships don’t have to be hard.”— Kristin Rattigan, thoughtcatalog.com
“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work,’ because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“If you ever want to know how a man truly feels about you, do absolutely nothing. Then you'll have your answer.”— Miya Yamanouchi, amazon.com
“Because when a man cares, you know it. He’s showing up. He’s giving his all. He’s there even when things are unpleasant. And he’s trying.”— Kris Miller, thoughtcatalog.com