Love Quotes

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all the things you want from a person -- sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty -- and you get to pick three of those things. The rest you have to look for elsewhere. It's only in the movies that you find someone who gives you all those things. But this isn't the movies. In the real world, you have to identify which three qualities you want to spend the rest of your life with, and then you look for those qualities in another person. That's real life. Don't you see it's a trap? If you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

~ Lindsey Kelk

You never know who's waiting for you and you never know when love is coming your way or who it might be. But let me just say, a healthy relationship requires SACRIFICE and DEDICATION.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

There is nothing right or wrong in love. Where there is love, then there is nothing but only love.

~ Sara Naveed

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.

~ H. Norman Wright

Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I’m not saying this because I need a place to stay. That’s the last thing I need. I told you, I’m a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain’t got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn’t the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life.

~ Toni Morrison

In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.

~ Suzy Kassem

In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry.

~ Arzum Uzun

An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word love – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

~ Adrienne Rich

To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.

~ Andrew Sean Greer

When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

~ May Sarton

I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.

~ Emily Giffin

Sacrifices made for love are fine, unless the sacrifice is you.

~ Kellie Elmore

For someone who is supposed to be a knight in shining armor, you're acting like an ass in aluminum foil.

~ Lisa Logue

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

~ Mitch Albom

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

~ Henry Cloud

Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it’s also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

~ Grace Helbig

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

~ Joshua Harris

Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

~ Thornton Wilder

There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

~ Jerry L. Lewis

Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.

~ Mabel Iam

It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them

~ Joseph Fink

I realize the thing about a guy you've spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's real you've really made most of him up.

~ Kirsten Smith

No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.

~ Sherwood Smith

I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand.-- Gayle Windham

~ Grace Burrowes

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell.His absence wasn’t a problemBut the corkscrew had gone as well.

~ Wendy Cope

The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.

~ Gillian Flynn

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

~ Criss Jami

It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically

~ Meg Jay

dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities.

~ Rick Riordan

Don't feed your ego with my soul.

~ Arzum Uzun

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.

~ Robyn Donald

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

~ Edmond Rostand

Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.

~ Alice Hoffman