“Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.” – Anita Brookner

“If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them…they could perceive what they have made for us.” – Albert Camus

“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

“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

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart.” – Henry James

“One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.” – Susan Sontag