Author: Jennifer Sien

“Human relationships don’t belong to engineering, mathematics, chess, which offer problems that can be perfectly solved. Human relationships grow, like trees.” – J.B. Priestley

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.” – Louise Erdrich

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.” – Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Sometimes, the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive…it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.” – Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.” – Pema Chodron

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one’s companion.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

“When we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.” – Lena Dunham