“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”— Gloria Steinem, elle.com
“Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear, but you must come first.”— Beau Taplin, lecosmicroses.tumblr.com
“I am not afraid of an argument. Get emotional. Get angry. Spit language venom. Be unrelenting and cruel with your words if you feel you have to be. Because above all else I am terrified of the silence. Of things becoming so passionless between us there is no longer anything left worth fighting for.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Whatever you decide, don’t stay because you are afraid of change, saying goodbye, or ending up alone. There is nothing more harmful to your heart and soul than sharing them with someone not meant for you.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I’m sorry. I was supposed to be a safe harbour for you. But I have storms of my own, too.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I don’t believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it’s unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another’s joy, development, or uniqu…”— Leo Buscaglia, peopleandpossibilities.com
“I am yours. If I died this moment, I am yours. Forget me. Forget me and love me again as you did the first time. Forget me and come back to me again.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“Any relationship that could be ‘ruined’ by having a conversation about feelings, standards, or expectations wasn’t really firm enough anyway, so there isn’t much to ruin.”— yourbigsisnissi, yourbigsisnissi.tumblr.com
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.…”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“I love you. It’s insane, actually. But I love you. What am I suppose to do?”— Mario Benedetti, twitter.com
“That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.”— Pittacus Lore, amazon.com
“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“Oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much.”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com
“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.”— Emery Allen, emeryallen.tumblr.com
“When they were together like that, they had been their own private universe, bounded just by themselves, a population of two. They were the world, and the world was them.”— Patrick Ness, amazon.com