“Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again but when they decide they would have no objection to seeing us all the time; not when they have every opportunity to run away but when they have exchanged solemn vows promising to hold us, and be held captive by us, for lif…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Sometimes I'm a bitch, and I'm not proud of it, but I try to be an honest bitch.”— Khloé Kardashian, amazon.com
“I’d be lying if I said you make me speechless the truth is you make my tongue so weak it forgets what language to speak in.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“The reason relationships are falling apart in modern times, is because we now have choice. And we’re choosing to be scared. We’re choosing to run from our own vulnerability. We’re choosing to blame others instead of seeing the truth – the opportunity to look inside and grow.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“The problem is not in the girl who needed too much from him or the guy who exuded a fake arrogance to hide his vulnerability. The problem is that these people are mirroring back to us our own issues, and we keep switching people, but WE are the one common denominator. Their neediness, their arroganc…”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“We’re too busy staring at our smart phones and iPads that we don’t even know who we really are. We are over-stimulated, externally-focused and too scared to look inside and find out what lights us up inside, what our fears are, and who we are when the world feels like it’s closing in from the outsid…”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“But because we have grown up in an age where everything is at our fingertips, when we reach out and it’s not easy and it scares us a little – we pull our hands back in and keep moving on. Looking for the next easy thrill in a new connection, not putting in the time to really see and love deeply.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com
“We have become a society where some people are settling for being treated in a way that is less than they deserve because they’re scared of being alone, and others are not truly letting anyone in or giving them a chance because they’re scared of what those people will find out about them.”— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.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