Quotes

“Those who feel lovable, who love, and who experience belonging simply believe they are worthy of love and belonging.” – Brene Brown

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.” – Jane Austen, Emma

“We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” – Cornel West

“Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“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.”