“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.” – Augusten Burroughs

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is preparation. – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.” – Katharine Hepburn

“Love…is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.” – Philip James Bailey

“There ain’t really no words for love or pain.” – Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.” – Zadie Smith

“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.” – John Green and David Levithan, Will Grayson

“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into actions.” – Germaine De Stael

“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God