“Nothing any good isn’t hard.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.” – Lew Wallace

“The best thing to hold onto life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Real love amounts to witholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.” – David Sedaris

“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.” – Augusten Burroughs

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is preparation. – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love or danger, it would almost be easy to live. – Albert Camus

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.” – Katharine Hepburn

“Love…is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding