Real Love Quotes

It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.

~ Sharon Salzberg

if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Causing harm is never just a one-way street.

~ Sharon Salzberg

If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being—someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love

~ Sharon Salzberg

Don't be so impatient in finding love, take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book.

~ Surgeo Bell

Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.

~ Sharon Salzberg

A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We all have cracks and tears and shattered glass within our souls. Some have more than others. We do not wish to seek one who has none; but we wish to find the one who can say look at me, look at this. We wish to find the one who sees every bit of broken glass and who will put those pieces into the palms of our hands and say please keep them. And we wish to be that kind of person, too. This is how it should be.

~ C. Joybell C.

...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that—whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell someone a dream or talk about your astrological signs as code for all the things you love about each other.

~ Francesca Lia Block

The feelings that still linger, decade after decade, aren’t just the residue of a love lost. They are as real as the first day I told her I loved her. ~Corbin Jones, Voice of Innocence

~ Lindsay Detwiler

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved you as dearly as he professes to love Christ, then he would never let anyone that loved him suffer or lower their self worth to be with him. True love is compassion, respect and honorable acts that prove love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We all believe that, we can’t buy love even if we are rich enough; but I think no one buys his own property.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

It's him, it always has been and it always will be ~ the only thing left now is timing.

~ Nikki Rowe

If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Unconditional love goes beyond holding on and letting go. Real love is about truth. It's about looking at what's really going on instead of the stories we tell ourselves about it. It's about being able to love someone from afar, when we need to, because we see that closeness turns us into the worst versions of ourselves.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Real love does not hurt, but the rotten lies about love can cause you to hate love.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.

~ Judy Blume

Perfect bliss, from just the thought of you next to me.

~ Delano Johnson

I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.

~ Sharon Salzberg

If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When I'm around you, it's like every dream I've ever had is standing right in front of me.

~ Courtney Giardina

You make the decision to love everyday, whether you feel the magic or not. It's the decision that creates perseverance, not the feeling of love in itself, because sometimes, butterflies do not suffice

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.

~ Emily Maguire

I had a lot of maybes in the love arena but this time I don't know why do I pray fervently that God will make you Right just for me. For true love is full of Hope, will not close its doors for its Beloved just because of his flaws. After all, we are born imperfect but can be perfected by Real Love. - Author/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo

~ Elizabeth E. Castillo

But love isn't a career. It isn't a degree you earn or a formula you pull out of a textbook. It's bumpy and blotched and painful and completely irreplaceable. Aren't there times when it might be better to let go? Sometimes the best part of life grows out of what you have no say over.

~ Carol Cassella

If your love is real, it will one day reunite you with your estranged lover despite any circumstances.

~ Anamika Mishra

The idea that love is something magical, almost supernatural, in your heart, that has nothing to do with the day-to-day encounters with a real person--- that understanding of love has probably created more unhappiness and ruined more marriages than just about anything.Love is what happens between people living their lives together, becoming close through contact and actual partnership and it's what survives through difficulties and imperfections. An idealized, imagined, faraway person in your heart---that's not love. That's a daydream.

~ Misha Glouberman