“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 patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart….Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“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.”

“Be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting.” – T. S. Eliot

“Things come suitable to the time.” – Enid Bagnold

“Honor the space between no longer and not yet.” – Nancy Levin

“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” – Steve Jobs