“Let us love, since that is all our hearts were made for.” – St. Therese De Lisieux

“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words.” – Jeffrey Eugenides

“Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It’s quite simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes.” – Antoine De Saint Exupery

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Charles Dickens

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness, there is at least one which makes the heart run over.” – Ray Bradbury

“Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. – Cheryl Strayed

“The best portion of a good man’s life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” – William Wordsworth

“You’ll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you’d go.” – Tony Kushner

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” – Fred Rogers