When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. – Jess C. Scott
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. – Stephanie Perkins
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. – Donald Miller
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Epicurus
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. – Ernest Hemingway
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me. – Steve Maraboli
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. – Leo Buscaglia
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. – Henry Winkler
The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned. – Becca Fitzpatrick
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. – Maya Angelou
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. – Graham Greene
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. – Marilyn Monroe
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. – John Green
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. – Neil Gaiman
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive. – Christopher Pike
Hollowness: that I understand. I’m starting to believe that there isn’t anything you can do to fix it. That’s what I’ve taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps. – Paula Hawkins
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong. – Haruki Murakami
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 arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together. – Lisa Kleypas
There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. – Robert Brault
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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