“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”

“Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.”

Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

“Good intentions are pointless without the will to implement them.”

N. K. Jemisin book The Broken Kingdoms

“I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. - Damon Salvatore”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

“People spend whole lifetimes seeking that which they already have. They have it, because they are it. All you have to do to have love is to be love. You are beloved. Each of you. All of you.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

“It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.”

Nicole Kidman (1967) Australian-American actress and film producer

“To love yourself is a never-ending journey.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer