“Self-love is the best kind of love and you shouldn’t doubt a thing about that.”
- Robert M. Drake
“When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.”
- Lisa Unger
“What kind of love was it I felt when I was twenty? … I only wanted to give, but not to receive. Foolish, wrong, exaggerated, proud, rash, for in love one must not only give, but also take, and reversing it, one must not only take but also give. Whoever deviates either to the right or to the left, he falls, there is no help for it.”
- Vincent van Gogh
“The people we meet at the wrong time are actually just the wrong people. You never meet the right people at the wrong time because the right people are timeless. The right people make you want to throw away the plans you originally had for one and follow them into the hazy, unknown future without a glance backwards.”
- Heidi Priebe
“It took me a long time to realize that not everything in life is meant to be a beautiful story. Not every person we feel something deep and moving with is meant to make a home within us, is meant to be a forever. Sometimes, people come into our lives to teach us how to love; and sometimes, people come into our lives to teach us how not to love. How not to settle, how not to shrink ourselves ever again. Yes, sometimes people leave – but that’s okay, because their lessons always stay, and that is what matters. That is what remains.”
- Bianca Sparacino
“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It’s how we learn. We breathe love. It’s how we learn. And it is inevitable.”
- Nayyirah Waheed
“When someone helps you and they’re struggling too, that’s not help, that’s love.”
- Luis
“Do yourself a favor and learn how to walk away. When a connection starts to fade learn how to let it go. When a person starts to mistreat you, learn how to move on to something and someone better. Don’t waste your time and energy trying to force something that isn’t meant to be. Because the truth is, for every one person who doesn’t value you there are tons more waiting to love you better. Do better.”
- Reyna Biddy
“No one is too good for you. It all depends on the kind of attraction. You can be desired for your looks, status, or the size of your bank account, but when you are desired for you—your heart, your soul, the way your mind works, nothing else matters. Spiritual connection surpasses all else.”
- Beau Taplin
“My best friend once asked me: 'How can you tell if a person genuinely loves you?'
I replied: 'Maybe you just feel it. Maybe through the effort they put in your bond'
He said: “Time. You know that a person loves you by how much time they give you. When a person decides to sit and see you cry for hours rather than being somewhere else. The phone calls, the long conversations, the texts. No one would voluntarily invest their time in you over and over if they didn’t genuinely love you. And that has been one of my major standards for love ever since.”
- Alya Omran
“Falling in love with someone you had no intentions on falling for, is the most beautiful kind of love. No forcing chemistry, or trying to save them. Just a pure, raw connection that created on its own.”
- Sara Sheehan
“May you have at least one person who will love you when you ain’t so lovable. When you’re anxious and nervous. When you mistreat others. When you no longer crack jokes and have no more stories to tell.”
- Shorouk Mostafa
“One day, you will meet someone who’ll go extra mile just to put a smile on your face. Someone whose deeds matches his/her words. Someone who’ll remind you how precious you are and will take care of you. Someone who’ll understand your sentiments as well as your silence. Someone who’ll put you above his/her pride. Someone who’ll rather lose the argument than lose you. Someone who’ll always be thankful for your existence. Someone who may get tired but will never leave. Someone who’s going to see your flaws but will still love you, anyway. One day you will meet that someone and it’s not going to be easy but it would surely be worth the wait.”
- Gecille Elido
“You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.”
- Nicholas Sparks
“A soulmate does not complete you — they inspire you to complete yourself. A soulmate is the person who supports your direction, who motivates and encourages you to stretch, to change, to reinvent yourself until you are happy. A soulmate is someone who loves you with so much conviction, and so much heart, that it is nearly impossible to doubt just how capable you are of becoming exactly who you have always wanted to be.”
- Bianca Sparacino
“There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn’t. There’s a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn’t need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Do all things with love, but don’t romanticize life like you can’t survive without it. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn’t any less beautiful, I promise.”
- Emery Allen
“I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn’t impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.”
- Lisa Unger
“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.”
- Nikita Gill
“When somebody cares for you, it is so apparent. In their words, in their gestures, in their actions — it is obvious. Don’t settle for anybody who leaves you wondering.”
- Anon
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
