“A soulmate is a meeting of mind, spirit and body with someone whose strengths, flaws and energy perfectly complement your own. It is steady ground, a shelter in a storm, a point on a map when you are wayward and lost–the promise of a place to come home to for as long as you are here in the world.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to WalMart, so be it.”— Maynard James Keenan, goodreads.com
“I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story.”— Ella Fitzgerald, ellafitzgerald.com
“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick; but then there's other people. And you meet them and you think, "Not bad, they're okay," and when you get to know them...their face just, sort of, becomes the…”— Tom MacRae, Amy Pond, Karen Gillan, amazon.com
“When people distance themselves, you can actually feel their missing energy.”— Rachel Wolchin, twitter.com
“I usually become a ghost to those who no longer deserve my time. I've never seen a point in explaining my absence to someone who failed to appreciate my presence. You don't owe any explanations to those who hurt you.’”— R.H. Sin, goodreads.com
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“I don’t think I understand people very well. I only know whether I like or dislike them.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a [woman], and the…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Every person’s map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way… So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.”— Milton H. Erickson, facebook.com
“You don’t get to choose who handles your heart. There are simply people who were born with it in their teeth. When you meet them, it is best to build a bomb shelter.”— Tara Hardy, thelovejournals.com
“But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com