Caroline Myss

It occurred to me that love, simply stated, is replacing the need to always be right with the need to be understanding.

The love we shared is a paper town on a map we drew ourselves, drunk and fucked and needing to be more than we were.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them-we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

I know you’re dying to meet me, but I can just tell you this. Baby, as soon as you meet me, you’ll wish that you never did.

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.

I never met a woman I didn’t like. I love ’em all, in their different ways.

I’m a different man now. I’m still a romantic, I still believe in love, but when I met Barbara I was looking for it. Now, I don’t know.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

I don’t wanna wake it up, the devil in me.

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

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

“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.

I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.