“To love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.” – Jane Goodall

“It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.” – Rebecca West

“Love is many things, none of them logical.” – William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.” – Germaine De Stael

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung

“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but…all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.” – Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” – Marcel Proust

“The more I wonder…the more I love.” – Alice Walker

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” – Mary Oliver

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert