“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is right here and now.” – Fred Rogers

“Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner.” – Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Be worthy, love, and love will come.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“On the other side of pain, there is still love.” – Madeleine L’Engle, A House Like A Lotus

“Love isn’t something natural. Rather, it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”

“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