“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” – Charles Dickens

“Most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.” – Anne Lamott

“There is not love of life without despair about life.” – Albert Camus

“When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“We do not need to go out and find love; we need to be still and let love discover us.” – John O’Donohue

“How we need another soul to cling to.” – Sylvia Plath

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you would be loved, be lovable.” – Ovid

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.” – Edith Wharton