Nicholas Sparks Quotes

It's relaxing to be around somebody that you don't have to try so hard around.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

I wouldn't change a thing about my family.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.

Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.

You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever.

I believe love is finding the person you're happiest with because he understands and accepts you the way you exactly are.

I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.

When you don't have to say 'I love you,' when you don't have to prove your love by singing a song, or express it through the body, that's two souls connecting.

They welcomed me here in Orlando and wanted me to just be me.

Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care.

I think it's awesome when you meet someone that can kind of just get you 110 percent, and no matter how long that lasts, you kind of just take it for what it is and embrace it.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

Love me. Love my umbrella.