“You lose yourself trying to hold onto someone who doesn’t care about losing you.”— Lao Tzu, amazon.com
“Without communication, there is no relationship. Without respect, there is no love. Without trust, there is no reason to continue.”— Unknown, amazon.com
“Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without.”— Jared Leto, pinterest.com
“It’s not about finding a perfect person but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”— Sam Keen, amazon.com
“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to…”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to tolerate dissimilarity that is the true marker of the 'right' person.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“We speak of 'love' as if it were a single, undifferentiated thing, but it comprises two very different modes: being loved and loving. We should marry when we are ready to do the latter and have become aware of our unnatural--and dangerous--fixation on the former.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Our romantic lives are fated to be sad and incomplete, because we are creatures driven by two essential desires which point powerfully in entirely opposing directions.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“He is in love with a woman who too often appears not to need love at all; a fighter so capable and strong that there are few opportunities afforded to nurture her.”— Alain de Botton, 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
“We allow our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com