“I still remember you as a little girl who overwaters plants because she doesn’t know when to stop giving.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“Doing small things that will make them happy makes you so incredibly happy.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“Act like all that matters is my pleasure and how I feel. That makes me sound selfish, but it makes me want to do to the same to the other party and makes me want to try to match their efforts. It can make for a very intense sexual experience.”— Casey Gueren, buzzfeed.com
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”— Mother Teresa, catholic.org
“Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you’re in hell when you don’t give to someone who needs, because you can’t bear to have less. What you are giving away then is your own soul.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became. When the water around him filled with glimmering scales, he at last felt at home among the other fish.”— Marcus Pfister, amazon.com
“Be the girl who travels and changes the world. Build houses, teach children, or volunteer at an orphanage. Serve the world that’s given so much to you, and let it simultaneously give you a sense of greater purpose.”— Jerrica Peterson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I'm giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do.”— Jojo Moyes
“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”— Sue Monk Kidd, amazon.com
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”— Georgette Heyer, amazon.com
“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“She loved him. But he didn’t know how to love. He could talk about love. He could see love and feel love. But he couldn’t give love. He could make love. But he couldn’t make promises.”— G.G Renee Hill, amazon.com
“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”— Gabrielle Zevin, goodreads.com
“Do you like me?’ No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and somethin…”— Anne Sexton, poemhunter.com
“If you're gonna leave, I wish you'd just leave. Why do you keep coming back if you're not going to stay? Because even when you're gone, you're never really gone... I won't get over it if you keep coming back.”— Brodi Ashton, amazon.com
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com