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61 " We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare. "

― Brené Brown , The Gifts of Imperfection

62 " Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. "

― Trent Dalton , Love Stories

63 " Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another. "

― Charles Bukowski

64 " Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Kindly Ones (The Sandman, #9)

65 " You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to lie with your soul in the grave? "

― Emily Brontë , Wuthering Heights

66 " Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back." You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward." I can't." " I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. " I'll tell you a secret." " Tell me." I loved it when he was like this." I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. " Swear it." " Why me?" " Because you're the reason. Swear it." " I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes." I swear it," he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned." I feel like I could eat the world raw. "

67 " Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside. "

― Greg Behrendt , He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

68 " When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. "

69 " ...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before. "

― Elle Newmark , The Book of Unholy Mischief

70 " A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. "

― Rumi , Words of Paradise: Selected Poems

71 " To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. "

― Woody Allen

72 " No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. "

― Kahlil Gibran

73 " One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche

74 " Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

75 " I don't know if anyone's ever told you this" , he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. " You're very attractive." catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, " I could say the same about you." I pause. " In case you didn't know." A slow grin spreads across his face. " Oh, trust me. I know. "

76 " Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart? "

― Nicholas Sparks , The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)

77 " to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed. "

― Cassandra Clare , City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

78 " I'd love to, she finally said," on one condition." I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful." Yes?" " You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me." I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor.I smiled and gave her my word. "

79 " Life did not stop, and one had to live. "

― Leo Tolstoy , War and Peace

80 " One can never have enough socks "