Author: Jennifer Sien

“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always toward the other soul.” – D. H. Lawrence

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.” – Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“It’s no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.” – Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” – C. S. Lewis

“I have been bent and broken, but I hope — into a better shape.” -Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again — this is the brave and happy life.” – J. E. Buckrose

“Even when love isn’t enough…somehow it is.” – Stephen King

“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” – Mother Teresa

“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