What's important is people. The people who love us, who need us, who make us feel emotion. That's what's important in life.

I refused to lose my heart to someone who was incapable of giving me his.

—Helen Hardt in Craving

There's an old saying that if everyone threw their problems in a pile, and you saw what they all were, you'd go racing back to take your own.

—Helen Hardt in Possession

The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

—Myles Munroe in Waiting and Dating

Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.

—Kim Gruenenfelder in A Total Waste of Makeup

Who needs a fairytale? In the end, I only want to be happy with a guy I love, and who loves me just as much. That's all I need.

—Cherrie Lynn in Rock Me

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

—Voltaire

The happier you are, the less you need.

—Francesca Lia Block in Ecstasia