“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to love without you.” – Winnie the Pooh

“Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.” – Kimberly Kirberger, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul Series

“Love just happens. We don’t have to do anything.” – Kimberly Kirberger, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul Series

“It is true that selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.” – Erich Fromm

“Losing in love is like losing in chess; the more you play, the more you learn.” – Lia Gay

“A person’s looks are never going to make you love them or like them.” – Drew Barrymore

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” – Oscar Wilde

“Each relationship you have with another person reflects the relationship you have with yourself.” – Alice Deville

“Love is not something that happens to you, it is something that you choose to happen.” – Love and Other Disasters, 2006

“There are two kinds of sparks, the one that goes off with a hitch, but burns out quickly. The other is the kind that needs time, but when the flame strikes…it’s eternal, don’t forget that.” – Timothy Oliveira