I believe there are only two unstoppable forces in the…

“You are my everything,” Julie said. “You are challenging, and difficult, and guarded. I love those things about you. You are fascinating, and complex,…

— Jessica Park

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else…

— Bruce D. Perry

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity…

— Meg Ryan

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and…

— Steve Tesich

Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with…

— Woody Allen

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one…

— Jean Vanier

“Even sorrow has its silver lining, as the emotion that pours forth reminds us of our capacity to love, and to be loved.”

— Rob Kozak

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life…

— Robin Lim

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly…

— Rollo May

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact.…

— Martin Amis

...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both…

— Christopher McDougall

You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be…

— Geneen Roth

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity…

— Caroline Myss

“How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?”

— Ted Dekker

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

— Jack Kornfield