“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.” – Xiaolu Gio

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” – Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.” – Ted Hughes

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.” – Neil Gaiman

“To love at all is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; love for ourselves – say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Happiness comes more from loving than being loved. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again – this is the brave and happy life.” – J.E. Buckrose

“When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.” – J.K. Rowling