Charles Dickens

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Am I in love with you? Or am I in love with the feeling?

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

I’m searching for something that I can’t reach.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

I’m bad at love, but you can’t blame me for tryin’.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. But the deeper truth is that we don’t entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love’s scarcity.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.

I knew from that first moment we met. It was not love at first sight exactly, but – familiarity. Like oh, hello, it’s you. It’s going to be you. Game over.

You’re ripped at every edge but you’re a masterpiece.

Don’t forget me, don’t forget me. I wouldn’t leave you if you’d let me.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Love is the absence of judgment.