“You are going to do some really stupid and mean things in the name of love. Don’t be so hard on yourself when things don’t turn out. You are a good person that loved deeply. Anybody worth having will know that hurting someone is not showing someone who you really are. You’re a sensitive person that…”— Shannon Alder, facebook.com
“There's a fine line between 'friends' and someone not caring enough to call you their girlfriend. You don't deserve someone who keeps you around solely to boost their own ego, when they have no one better to call. I know you think letting him go feels like you're losing the love of your life. But le…”— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com
“It's really simple: if they love you, you'll know it. If they don't, you'll constantly wonder if they do.”— Soft Grung, twitter.com
“Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”— Margaret Anderson, amazon.com
“When you have a sick parent, you can’t help but think of the end. Like literally, the final moments of life come to mind when I begin to love someone. I think, Will this dude push my wheelchair? And even scarier, Would I be willing to push his?”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“I will endure for you, even when we fall on hard times, even when we struggle. I will not flee or abandon you when we disagree, I will not sleep within foreign arms when I feel hurt. I promise that when I date you, I will fight for you. I will fight for the beauty in which our hearts have felt, and…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“I had one of the most precious blessings available to human beings — real love. I went for it and found it.”— Eve Pell, nytimes.com
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“But she loved him, too, with a ferocity that eventually forced her to leave him. They fought each other with the kind of graceful anger that only love can create. Still, their love was passionate, unpredictable, and selfish.’”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Because the truth is, if you want that big, passionate, all-consuming love, you’re going to have to go after it. You’re going to have to fight for it. You’re going to have to be willing to put yourself out there in a way that could potentially humiliate or break you. And at the end of the day, it mi…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“We’ve gotten so wrapped up in protecting our egos that we’ve forgotten what it means to love freely. Or even how to let ourselves feel. Because the truth is, the kind of love that all of us are aching for isn’t the kind that plays by the rules.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words.”— Patrick Marber, amazon.com
“Movies love to imply that the man and woman held each other all night long, but you can’t do it. You have to roll away.”— David Shields, amazon.com
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“This is where we love, and though it’s been months, you still taste like my favorite day.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com