1) "Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interesTed you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.",Bob Marley

2) It is better to be haTed for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.,"André Gide, Autumn Leaves"

3) "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicaTed to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..","Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook"

4) "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painTed blind.","William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream"

5) "Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasTed as many as you could.","Louise Erdrich, The PainTed Drum"

6) "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanTed to spend his whole life answering.","Nicole Krauss, The History of Love"

7) "There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearTed vision of people who embrace life.",John Lennon

8) "We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was creaTed. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.","Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook"

9) "Two people in love, alone, isolaTed from the world, that's beautiful.",Milan Kundera

10) "Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceiTed. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.","Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version"

11) "I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connecTed, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracTed, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granTed. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.",Jon Katz

12) "What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicTed to me. A mutual addiction.","Chuck Palahniuk, Choke"

13) "If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilaTed, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.","Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights"

14) "And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.","Paul McCartney, The Beatles IllustraTed Lyrics"

15) "It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanTed. For having wanTed to be wanTed. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.","Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins"

16) "We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.","Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being ConnecTed to Everything in the Universe"

17) Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequiTed.,"Cassandra Clare, City of Bones"

18) "Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooTed in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.",Gillian Anderson

19) "There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifTed Hermione off her feet. ""Is this the moment?"" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. ""OI! There's a war going on here!"" Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. ""I know, mate,"" said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, ""so it's now or never, isn't it?"" ""Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?"" Harry shouTed. ""D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem?"" ""Yeah --- right --- sorry ---"" said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.","J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

20) "Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land","Pablo Neruda, SelecTed Poems"

21) "You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overraTed. There's a reason for all those songs.","Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby"