“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

“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.”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”

“He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.”

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”

“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.”

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”

“The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.”

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.”

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

“We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” 

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”

“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.”

“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”

“Just because I’m not forever by your side doesn’t mean that’s not precisely where I want to be.”

“My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all…All my heart has ever wanted is you.”

“Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.”

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”

“Oh no. Don’t smile. You’ll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.