" We accept the love we think we deserve. "

— Stephen Chbosky

" A weed is but an unloved flower. "

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. "

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

" When you have been hurt, and you can move on to a better understanding of yourself, it is the strongest thing you will ever do. "

— Pablo Neruda

" I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. "

— Margaret Mitchell

" The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. "

— Clarice Lispector