“So don’t sacrifice yourself, your self-worth, your sanity, and your respect, all in the name of holding onto someone who seems to love you only sometimes.”— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t call me. Don’t text me. Don’t snap me. Don’t tag me in cute Facebook videos. Don’t ask my family or my friends how I’m doing.”— Mike Zacchio, thoughtcatalog.com
“A guarded woman doesn’t jump into love until you show her it’s okay to fall.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“The love of your life might be a career or a hobby or something else entirely. Stop believing that it has to be a relationship, because it doesn’t.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“You just need to be patient. To not settle for average or mediocre. Because you are not average or mediocre, and you deserve to have the most beautiful love story in the world.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I hope you find something real, because nothing is more beautiful than loving someone who loves you back. Nothing is more beautiful than loving someone who builds you a home in their heart.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you.”— Eartha Kitt, amazon.com
“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it.”— Kevin Hart, amazon.com
“I see someone who's trying very hard. I see someone who's nervous, but stronger than she knows. I see someone who's worried, but doesn't need to be.”— Ruth Ware, amazon.com
“I will choose you. Even on the days when you do not choose yourself, on the nights when your hair is a mess and your posture is slumped.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Wait for the one who will hurt you but only because the happiness is so great that your heart can't hold it in anymore, so joyful that your heartstrings start stretching uncomfortably.”— Abirami P. Kurukkal, instagram.com
“They may hurt you like the strongest hurricane, but darling you are the sun, you will surely rise and shine again and again.”— ma.c.a, instagram.com
“We’re all guilty of doing this; forgetting who we are because we’re really into someone, we let them get away with the things we frown upon, we forgive them when they weren’t even sorry, we give them so many things they didn’t even earn.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You see the best in people. You believe in the goodness of this world. And you always look for the light in the darkest places.”— Farah Ayaad, thoughtcatalog.com
“To you, love isn’t just a word, it’s an action. It’s waking up next to the same person every day, and supporting them through better and worse.”— Andrea Davis, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’re going to feel that insane over-the-moon feeling again. You’re going to want to tell someone ‘I love you’ again. You’re going to have something real with another human being again, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“The best relationships are the ones that come as a surprise, when your feelings totally sneak attack you.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Date someone who loves you enough to answer your questions, to open up when you ask, and to give you a little extra assurance when you’re feeling slightly insecure.”— Salma Elbarmawi, thoughtcatalog.com