“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

“People don't do them around me. I would never allow it. The people who are around me are people that I love, and I don't want to see people that I love hurt themselves.”

Rihanna (1988) Barbadian singer, songwriter, and actress

“What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.”

Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) Dutch priest and writer

“Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.”

Irvine Welsh (1958) Scottish novelist

“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.”

Amit Ray (1960) Indian author

“Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

“I really love to skate, I really love to perform. I want to skate for my fans. I never feel like a champion. I'm always a challenger.”

Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)

“There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic