Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

Love is kind, right? It's not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait. Love, Michael.

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

Think about a dog’s ability to forgive. This to me is love.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.