“We forgive and forget just to give another chance to the person we love or think we love.”
“The greatest gift we can give to another person is our love.”
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
“We’re hungry for acceptance—from ourselves even more than from others—for love, for fulfillment, for peace. We’re hungry for a life we think we don’t deserve or can’t have, for the person we know we can be if only we’d give ourselves the chance.”
“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”
“We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.”