Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

• Henry Winkler

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.

• Emily Kimbrough

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

• Bill Maher

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.

Candace Bushnell

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.

Mae West

It’s probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he’s absolutely lethal.

• Charlaine Harris

“I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.”

– Jodi Picoult 

“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”

• Eric Fromm 

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” 

– Elizabeth Gilbert