Real Love Quotes

No matter how far apart we may be, no matter what dreams we may chase after individually, I want you to know that you will always be my first priority. I will always, always love you.

~ Lindsay Detwiler

I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into a passion so rare, that I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be.

~ Nikki Rowe

Love is an admiration that comes with patience. Lust is an admiration that comes with impatience. In all, admiration is common but patience is not!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The whole of my life I have relied on my beauty first, brains second. It was expected, even requested. But You saw right through me from the start. You are the only man I've ever known who has looked beyond my face and wanted to know me for me. And I find myself wanting you to know the whole me.

~ Kristen Callihan

At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love.

~ Sharon Salzberg

In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun.

~ Sharon Salzberg

True love doesn’t exist, for, love is always true. If it is not true, then it is not love at all.

~ Ashmita Acharya

I collect my thoughts, I choose my words, Whenever I decide to talk to you.But...I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,Whenever I reach in front of you.I wonder why it happens to me?even when my feelings are genuine and true.

~ Saad Salman

The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we’ve perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic.

~ Sharon Salzberg

You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from being happy, whether you are in their life or not.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment, avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present, and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Love is a commitment to cherish another's heart as if it were your own, it is an adventure to seek into all that creates them, it is laying under the stars and dreaming far and wide, it is seeing fear and grabbing each others to face it anyway, it is allowing another to be themselves with out your consent, it is knowing when darkness fills them you don't carry their burden; you just lighten their load. And if your love isn't as beautiful as this, why have you been loving the wrong one for so long?

~ Nikki Rowe

Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We must not just be recipients but givers! We must not just be keepers but donors! Giving brings relief and sharing enlightens the heart. Caring joins and showing love is life. It is never enough to acquire all acquisition. It is never enough to have all our ambitions. We must endeavor to give for giving out of a true heart is a true love and a true love is life.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We’re in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.

~ Sharon Salzberg

If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

~ Sharon Salzberg

As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.

~ Sharon Salzberg

What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.

~ Sharon Salzberg

So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.

~ Sharon Salzberg

By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can’t control, we maintain our energy for the quest.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of loving kindness and self-compassion, we can learn to love our flawed and imperfect selves. And in those moments of vulnerability, we open our hearts to connect with each other, as well. We are not perfect, but we are enough.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.

~ Sharon Salzberg

To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.

~ Sharon Salzberg