"In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it." — Paulo Coelho

"There is the fight for holding on. And the fight for letting go. The hardest thing i have ever experienced is the learning which and when. But i still say it’s worth it, that love is real and possible. There are things worth fighting for, and love is at the top of the list…" — Jamie Tworkowski

What you are to me
nothing can summarize and
no words can define.

"I love you more then yesterday.. And you’ll never know how much I loved you then." — James Patterson

"I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength." — Etty Hillesum

"Be a best friend, tell the truth, and over-use “I love you,” go to work, do your best, don’t outsmart your common sense, never let your prayin’ knees get lazy, and love like crazy." — Lee Brice

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." — Mark Twain

"Good things happen to those who hustle." — Anais Nin

"Love and time - those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent." — Gary Jennings

"But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes." — Augusten Burroughs

"We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I’ll never forget a single moment of it." — Nicholas Sparks

"Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose." — Jonathon Edwards

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." — Jonathan Swift

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." — William Shakespeare

"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble." — Sinclair Lewis

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired." — Kafka

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt." — Leo F. Buscaglia

"You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really- taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, it’s a wonder we do it at all." — A Great and Terrible Beauty

"I cannot write to anyone outside myself—if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That’s the only person I’m trying to please." — Shannon Hale

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." — Douglas H. Everet

"When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave." — Neil Gaiman