True love. There was a time in my life when I didn’t understand these words. Or, shall I say… I didn’t believe in love. I was too hurt, or I guess too exhausted of believing in something that gave me nothing than pain.
But then something happened. You came along. You arrived in my world completely unexpected and you fell in love with me. You fell in love with my flaws. You fell in love with my soul. You fell in love with my heart. The way I talk. The way I walk. The way I sleep. The way I read. The way I eat. The way I breathe. The way I move. The way I am.
You saw the real me and you fell in love with my true colors. And for the first time in my life, I fell what it’s like to truly love someone…
1. “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
—Vincent Van Gogh
2. “Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
—Oscar Wilde
3. “Happily ever after is not a fairy tale—it’s a choice.”
—Fawn Weaver
4. “Don’t try to be something to everyone. Be everything to someone.”
—Anonymous
5. “Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.”
—Ginni Rometty
6. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
—Stephanie Perkins, from Anna and the French Kiss
7. “True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpart in another.”
—John (Owen Wilson), from Wedding Crashers
8. “Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”
—Diane Arbus
9. “Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.”
—Anonymous
10. “If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.”
—David (Hugh Grant), from Love, Actually
11. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
—Henry Winkler
12. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
—Marcel Proust
13. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
—Nicholas Sparks, from At First Sight
14. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.”
—Sophocles
15. “Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
—Patrick Rothfuss, from The Wise Man’s Fear
16. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
—William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
17. “Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
—Fraklin P. Jones
18. “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.”
—Mark Twain
20. “Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.”
—N.R. Heart
21. “Love does not consist in gazing at love each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
22. “Love is a game that two can play and both can win.”
—Eva Gabor
23. “To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.”
—Doménico Cieri Estrada
24. “Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it or else we’re lost and love is dead, and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do.”
—Ted (Josh Radnor), from How I Met Your Mother
25. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
