Ella Wheeler Wilcox: There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found While journeying east and west – The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

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Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859: Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Phyllis McGinley, “Ballade of Lost Objects,” 1954: Sticks and stones are hard on bones Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart.

Swedish Proverb: Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Keith Sweat:You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Frederick Buechner:You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you

John Gray: We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways – the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

Rita Rudner:When I want to end a relationship I just say, ‘You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.’ Sometimes they leave skid marks.