“We hurt ourselves much more than anyone can hurt us just by believing the stupid thoughts we get sometimes.”— Charles F. Glassman, amazon.com
“There is no such thing as a soulmate… and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.”— Rachel Cohn, amazon.com
“Love means being a team. Being best friends. Being partners in crime. Love means you’re exactly where you’re meant to be.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soulmates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the scept…”— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.com
“Don’t say we aren't right for each other, the way I see it is… We aren't right for anyone else.”— Tony Gilroy, Daniel Bernard Sweeney, Doug Dorsey, amazon.com
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were ar…”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“When two people belong together, there is simply--at long last--a wondrous reciprocal feeling that both parties see the world in precisely the same way.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but we are really after is familiarity.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“There is, in the early period of love where...we can be childish, imaginative, wild, hopeful, cynical, fragile, and multiple; all of this our lover can understand and accept us for.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love is dividend of gratitude for our lover's insight into our own confused and troubled psyche.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love reaches a pitch at those moments when our beloved turns out to understand, more clearly than others have ever been able to, and perhaps even better than we do ourselves, the chaotic, embarrassing, and shameful parts of us. That someone else gets who we are and both sympathizes with us and forgi…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love is also, and equally, about weakness, about being touched by another's fragilities and sorrows, especially when--as happens in the early days--we ourselves are in no danger of being held responsible for them.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Of all the things I could accomplish in my life the greatest achievement would be becoming the type of woman who is good enough to stand beside you.”— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com
“Paige: I hope that one day I can love you the way you love me. Leo: You figured it out once. You'll do it again.”— Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, Leo, Channing Tatum, amazon.com