“But just because you're strong and resilient doesn't mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.”— Tammara Webber, amazon.com
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”— Gloria Steinem, elle.com
“I’ve stopped being sorry for all my soft. I won’t apologize because I miss you, or because I said it, or because I text you first, or again. I think everyone spends too much time trying to close themselves off. I don’t want to be cool or indifferent, I want to be honest.”— Azra T., 5000letters.tumblr.com
“It’s just sort of a thankful feeling – that I’m alive and that people are glad I am . There’s nothing to say – you know everything about me, and that’s mostly what I think about – I seem always curiously interested in myself, and it’s so much fun to stand off and look at me”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.”— Iyanla Vanzant, amazon.com
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“It will always be this way. I stand here scared that you will disappear, scared that you will stay.”— Mark Strand, amazon.com
“First admit that you are unhappy. Then admit why. Then understand you need to let go. Allow yourself a moment. Breathe in the moment deeply. Then the healing will begin.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.”— Philip Roth, amazon.com
“I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.”— Bruce Lee, amazon.com