I must believe my own favorite story...that of the Velveteen Rabbit

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
— Anais Nin

Maybe love won’t let you down, all of your failures are training ground.
— Rilo Kiley, The Absence of God

Each lover that doesn’t work gives you a new set of eyes and another piece of baggage to carry around with you. Sometimes though, some of the baggage gets taken by someone who loves you enough for the both of you.
— Anaïs Escobar, Love Notebook #6

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
— Walter Benjamin

Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
— Rumi

It’s there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. And-and I look at you, and I… and I’m home. Please… I don’t want that to go away.
— Finding Nemo

And...
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
— Paulo Coelho

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
— Douglas Adams