Author: Jennifer Sien

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” – Jean Anouilh

“There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” – A. A. Milne

“You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.” – Louis De Bernieres

“And when you get down to it, that’s the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love — but to persist in love.” – Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” – Lewis Carroll

“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” – James Thurber

“Don’t imagine that love, to be true and burning, must be extraordinary. No; what we need in our love is the continuous desire to love the one we love.” – Mother Teresa

“That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.” – John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

“The art of love…is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis