Love is an important part of being human. We all have experienced it in many forms. Some are lucky enough to preserve and cherish their love while others might have lost it along the way. Either way, it impacts our lives and leaves us with many lessons. Whether it is relationships or career or nature, love governs every aspect of life.
Here are the best Love quotes given by famous people which can help us understand this universal adventure from other's perspective.
We accept the love we think we deserve. ― Stephen Chbosky
The quote got famous from Stephen Chbosky's 2012 movie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, based on his own novel. This was the reply by the main character in response to his friend wondering why most of us make the wrong choices when it comes to love. Why we choose people who are never worthy of our love. Maybe we think so badly of ourselves, of our potential that we settle for whatever we get, including our relationships. We never reach out for good people, who are capable of loving and caring because somewhere within we are plagued by the idea that we don't deserve to be loved. And to save ourselves from all the hurt we never choose people whom we think are too good for us.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. ― Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe explained what it's like to judge yourself fairly. Neither underestimating nor feeling overentitled. When it comes to love seeing oneself in true light is important. Only when we accept ourselves completely – good and bad can we expect others to do the same. And they must accept our shortcomings as much as they enjoy our qualities. Who cannot handle the bad aspects of you do not deserve to enjoy the love you are capable of giving.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ― Andre Gide
It's not just about accepting ourselves but also loving self unconditionally. If it's a contest between being loved or being true to yourself, choose latter. We all are born unique and to be asked to hide our talents and personality for any reason is a shame, a waste of potential. It's okay if people around you right now, don't understand you or like you. Don't let their opinion change you. Keep on loving yourself and one day you will find the right company, the right people who will understand you and love you without conditions.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ― Martin Luther King Jr.
It is easy to be kind and loving when others give us the same treatment. However, it is tough to love in the face of hatred. It is difficult to do so but necessary as you can't change others behaviour towards you by hating them in return. It is only going to drive the wedge deeper. On the other hand, if you show love and compassion towards them, more often than not soon they will reciprocate too.
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. ― William W. Purkey
Do everything with all your heart. Let go of your inhibitions and fears. If you dance, enjoy it without worrying about your technique or the audience's opinion. Dance for your own happiness. Dance, like you, are alone. Sing as if no one is listening. Love someone completely without holding back, as if this was the only person in your life, the only person to love. Love like it is meant to be forever and nothing to be afraid of. And live like, this is the most beautiful place to be born in. Live like its a beautiful life and the only one you are granted, as that's how it is.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ― Dr Seuss
We dream and imagine things that are better than our present reality. But when you are in love, reality becomes exciting and interesting. You want to cherish every moment and do not want to miss anything. You don't feel like sleeping because real-life holds passion and joy, real feelings while dreams hold just a tinge of it.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. ― Elie Wiesel
Indifference can be worse than hatred. When you hate someone at least, you acknowledge their presence. But when you are indifferent, you are not concerned about their presence or absence. They might as well be not there at all and you wouldn't notice. Indifference means not spending even a minute thinking about them, which means not a single moment of your life is spent on them. You have cut them out of your life altogether. When someone is no longer a part of your life, they are as good as dead and that's worse than hatred.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyone needs love to be happy. All of us need someone to love and care for us. Sometimes this love is all that can save us from a bad, broken life. Maybe all the evils that reside in this world are because there is not enough love. People who go around hurting others do so because they never experienced what it's like to be loved and trusted. We do what we learnt growing up. If they never saw love around them, you cannot expect them to know how to love someone. And if someone courageous enough can take a chance on them and love them, it might be enough to turn over a new leaf.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. ― Oscar Wilde
We all deserve to be loved by someone who makes us feel special. This is one of the beautiful things about love; it makes you feel special. When someone dotes on you, gives more attention to you, spend more time with you, care more for you, it makes you feel desirable and special.
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.― Mitch Albom
Albom says that just because you lose someone you really loved, doesn't mean your love also has to cease. They are not there with you physically but they will always reside in your memories.
Although it is not the same thing, you won't be able to enjoy their company, their conversations, their touch and laughter. All these things cannot be relived in reality. All these are lost, but still, we can take refuge in our mind, which still holds a sacred place from where they can never leave. When people are lost, their memories become more potent. It will try to compensate for whatever is lacking in your life. In these memories, you can find them and love them.
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore. ― Lady Gaga
The American pop star and businesswoman speak about the importance of loving one's career. She warns about the dangers of choosing men over your career. Best case scenario you can balance both professional and personal life. But if you have to choose one, remember people are important. You cannot be happy without a partner, but also don't delude yourself into thinking that just because you choose someone, he will do the same for you. People always change and can easily fall out of love too. However, with career, the more you give it, the more you will gain.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. ― Pablo Neruda
Love is supposed to come naturally to us. It is supposed to be free of all the pride and problems and drama. The purest form, in which two people are close two each other because that's the only way they can exist in nature. They are so close that their body and mind are one, and each is an extension of the other.
All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love. — Leo Tolstoy
To understand something completely, you need to have a passion for pursuing it. You need to be dedicated to gaining knowledge. Most importantly you need to have a genuine love for it, only then will you take all the effort to know something in its entirety.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. ― John Green
As they say, love can be of two types. Love at first sight, that hits you all of a sudden and changes your life forever. Another kind sneaks up on you slowly and stealthily. You are not even aware you are falling for someone, then one day you are completely in love. Green compares this kind of love to sleep in his bestseller teen romance, The Fault In Our Stars. Just like sleep, love too comes to us slowly and until we are deep in our love, with a mind full of dreams.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ― William Shakespeare
Love does not have to be limited to one or few. You can love everyone. Compassion towards others is what maintains peace in our society and drives the welfare of the state. However, compassion doesn't mean you can trust everyone blindly. Choose carefully whom you trust. Above all, no matter you love them or not, trust them or not, do not harm anyone. You have no right to harm anyone even if they cannot be trusted, even if you cannot bring yourself to love them.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Romance is important in a relationship and so is friendship. If two people can't be friends, can't talk freely with each other, can't do things together that both can enjoy, they won't be able to survive in a healthy marriage for too long. Many would say romance eventually fizzles out but what keeps a couple together is their deep bond of friendship. If you can be friends with your partners, you will find a way to spend time with them, to be open with them and to respect them.
It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company. — Colin Firth
This quote warns us about the dangers of love. The passion can easily become an obsession and wipe out everything else from your perspective. Movies and shows that flaunt this kind of love are partly to be blamed too. While love is utterly beautiful, it is also intense and overwhelming. People of fragile emotional state and weak moral compass can easily get carried away by emotions. Love can be bliss in all its glory but it also has the potential to be destructive.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. ― Pablo Neruda
The writer says that his love is not flashy for the world to see it, but rather an intimate bond between two people. It might not be socially acceptable and consistent with the laws of the world and hence has to be kept a secret. His love is forbidden by society because they can't understand it. Hence, it will be hidden from the world and only will be known by his soul and his shadow.
We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love. ― Robert Fulghum
All of us have little quirks which make us weird and special at the same time. Our weirdness can prevent us from finding the right person. We need to find someone who will accept our good and bad and all that's unusual. Their personality will complement yours and that will be enough to form a perfect relationship.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. ― C.S. Lewis
One cannot love without feeling vulnerable. You put yourself out there, express and explore your feelings and desires. You let the emotions overwhelm you. All of it is part of the process. And many times, this can lead to a bad heartbreak. If you want, you can keep yourself away from this mess by not loving anyone, filling your life only with hobbies and luxuries and all superficial pleasures. And let nothing touch your heart and soul. But if you do that, beware, one day you will become cold to human emotions and your feelings and your beliefs will be set, never to grow or change.
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. ― Jess C. Scott
People who are truly in love, talk about their partners with ardour. It is visible in their expressions, how much they are delighted to be with that person. They talk about them as if they cherish their very presence in their lives. Just by the way they refer to their partners, they can make them feel safe and loved.
We love the things we love for what they are. ― Robert Frost
We love something for what they are, i.e., with all their shortcomings. We love them unconditionally. Some people are, however, fall in love with the idea of a person they make in their heads. They imagine them to be a certain kind, they imagine them how they want them to be, which is not right. We cannot love them in the hope that someday they will get better or change as per our wishes. If you are waiting for that to happen, you are not in love with the right person.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
True love will be kind and forgiving. People in love won't envy because they are comfortable and confident in their own relationship. They are humble, gentle and never proud. They will always forgive their partners because they don't want to jeopardise their relationship. Love will encourage them to be honest and righteous. People in love will never suspect their partners because they trust them. They will never back down and quit in love when times get hard. They will be persistent no matter how hard things get. And they are hopeful and will do anything to protect their relationship.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.― Nicholas Sparks
Life can be unexpected but life with love is more so. Relationship hardly goes as planned or expected. Bad situations can always get worse. But still don't lose your faith, one day it will all be better.
Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love always comes with a fear of losing it. This fear may always prevent us from getting into a relationship. Or even if we get into a relationship, we become very careful and may shut ourselves in and not be emotionally invested in it. This all can be a hindrance in making the bond deep and meaningful. It's better to go all in and enjoy whatever a relationship has to offer than to live too carefully and miss all the ups and downs of being in one.
In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. — Theodor Reik
The happiness we get out of things that we do for ourselves can be shortlived. When we gratify ourselves with riches, entertainment and luxuries, it might satisfy us momentarily, but soon the feeling will fade and you will have to find other ways to be gratified. But when you do something for others, it gives you a deeper satisfaction. When you are compassionate, you are able to live a more harmonious life with yourself.
That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. ― John Green
If you really love someone, you would know the importance of keeping your promise. Love teaches us to be trustworthy and responsible. It teaches us to not go back on the promise no matter what happens. Because if you really value someone, you will never let them down when they are expecting from you. You will never do anything to make them think they cant trust you.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. ― Paulo Coelho
Love can be beyond all the accepted reasons and logic. It might not coincide with our expectations or for that matter others. It might not be what is popular in society but that doesn't make it wrong. Love does not have to comply with all the rules and follow all the reasons. If you love someone, that itself is a powerful reason for anything.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. ― Mahatma Gandhi
We have seen in past, no matter how strong and powerful tyrants and other evils seem, no matter how hard they try to rule, eventually they all fall. Love and integrity always win in the end. This is what Gandhi is trying to say here, the fact that at the end enough of love can defeat any evil. And this is what keeps him hopeful and encourage him to follow the right path.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ― Anais Nin
Love will never get old as our physical body does. In fact, it has the potential to get only stronger with years. However, love can die due to a hundred other reasons. It will die if ignored, if not given quality time, if efforts not made to keep it exciting, if it's subjected to faithlessness.
Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver of a second, make you feel alone. — Tyler Knott Gregson
The biggest reason why we need love is so that we don't feel alone. There is no point of being in any kind of relationship if it makes you lonely. Even if they are miles apart, one should still be able to go through the day with the feeling that there is someone who will always have their back. You should be able to rely on them when you are facing problems. It doesn't matter if they can solve your problems or not, just being there so you can share it with them makes it better.
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. ―Elizabeth Gilbert
We have this notion that soul mates are people we have a perfect bond with. They are the ones who are going to be with us always. They are the ones who fit perfectly into our lives. But soulmate can also be someone who is none of those things and still integral to us as they help us understand ourselves better. They can be the ones who are not meant to stay forever but in whatever small period they stay with us, they impact our life greatly. They bring to our notice whatever had been missing till now.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao-Tzu
When someone loves you truly without any judgement or conditions, it is empowering. It builds your self-esteem and makes you feel deserving enough to go after things you want. It gives you the confidence to be resistant to failures and discouragement. And its corollary, if you love someone with all your heart, it demands courage. Because when you love someone, you are promising to be with them through thick and thin and that requires courage.
I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is too short to live with hatred in your heart. It will destroy your mental peace and rob you off all positivity. You will waste your time in anger and regrets. Instead, if you practice forgiveness and love you will be a happier person.
Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life won't be much without love in it. Love inspires us to be better, it becomes something to look forward to. Life will be drab, uneventful and without desires and dreams.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ― William Shakespeare
People do get attracted to others based on their physical attributes. But that's just attraction. It can grow into love only when getting past what they look like and developing a deep appreciation for their character and personality. Shakespeare said that's why God of love in classical mythology was depicted as blind.
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. ― Nicholas Sparks
Like any other feeling, love too can't be seen or heard. But that doesn't make it less real. It can be felt just like the wind that we can't sense until it touches our skin. And as wind leaves things and people ruffled in its wake, so does love.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. ― Jane Austen
There is no point of loving people with restrictions; some might even say that it is not loving. You cannot walk on the eggshells and tread so carefully so that you don't hurt yourself. You haven't loved until you have surrendered yourself to the feeling and have drowned in its bliss. Yes, loving like that makes it difficult to overcome if things do not work out favourably. But it's an experience worth all the pain.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. —Pablo Coelho
There's a belief that when we desire something from all our heart, all the forces in the universe will bring it to us. Even if there are no invisible forces that work in mysterious ways, still the thought ought to give us some comfort.
At a touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ―Plato
Love can bring our creative side to life. Love fills us with overwhelming emotions and feelings. We search for ways to express it and art becomes the best means of expression. Not just from an artist's point of view but even the audience can truly appreciate a work only if they have felt it too.
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I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. —Angelita Lim
When we love someone, its not we become blind to their flaws. It's just that those flaws are also a part of them and loving them means loving them with all their qualities as well as shortcomings. Our flaws are what makes us the kind of person we are. It pushes us to be better.
I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. —Leo Christopher
True love grows every day. There is no limit to how much you can love someone. Each day you spend with them you learn something new about them. The more you know them, the more you can fall in love.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ―Sophocles
Its only love that can free us from the pain and suffering. The joys of love can make up for all the tough times, for all sadness that shadows our lives. It can keep us sane and motivated when going through the worst of times.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. ―C.S. Lewis
There is also a kind of love that might not be romantic. It might be without passion and attraction. It is the kind of love that always wishes for other person's well being. It is more than affection and marked with constant care for someone. It can even be said to be a higher form of love since in this you eliminate the part of your happiness and are only concerned with doing what's good for them.
And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God. —Victor Hugo
Loving someone is closest to divinity a human can get. If we are all made in the reflection of God, then loving others is loving Him. Love is the only thing that can give us true happiness and peace. There is no greater value to aspire to have than to be able to love others.
I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. ―John Green
One day we all will die, and then everything we ever worked for will cease to exist too. All our efforts and troubles will have no significance. And even love no matter how much we feel today, on our last day will be gone with us. And as much as these things are going to happen, as much as it is true that love will be forgotten one day, what we feel right now is powerful and real. Even if it all has to perish, it deserves a chance to be felt and lived.
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.. ― Nicholas Sparks
We can be ordinary people with lofty dreams and limited means. We might not achieve much or do great things in life or leave a legacy. But if we can love others truly with all your heart, that amounts to something. This can be enough to lead a happy and successful life.
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. ―Jodi Picoult
We don't love someone because they are perfect, we love them because they are not perfect. Perfection does not define love; it's the imperfections that attracts us and makes us love the person more. Despite being not perfect, we tend to love the person because love overshadows perfection.
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That's what I hope to give you forever. —Nicholas Sparks
When our soul is awakened, that is the best kind of love and the best feeling of happiness and makes us reach for more. It ignites passion in our heart and soothes our mind. That's what we should get and that is what we should hope to give others forever.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return. —Baz Luhrmann
For humans, love is very important. To learn to love is the greatest thing that we will ever learn to do in our lives. We also learn how to be loved back in return. The greatest feeling would be to receive the love back from the person you love.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.― Robert A. Heinlein
The condition of love is such that it is essential to be aware of our partner's feelings and keep them happy. The person you love becomes a part of you, and you try to keep them happy as you would like to keep yourself happy.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. —Bette Davis
The happiness and bliss of love is momentary and does not last very long, but the pain of love or losing someone you love lasts forever. Love is something that should last but it does not and the pain accompanying it hurts us forever until our last breath.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. —H. L. Mencken
For us love is like a war once started, it can continue forever but if we choose to suppress it or stop it, it gets tougher with time and can become unstoppable. The fire of love burns forever and to put the fire off is a gruesome task.
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ―David Byrne
If we can talk to someone with whom we don't share any interests and still be fascinated by whatever they say, it is a form of appreciation. And this appreciation is a kind of love too. You are spending a few minutes of your life to know more about someone, and in return, you make the person feel acknowledged and listened to. In his exchange of feelings, you form a pure connection.
We loved with a love that was more than love. ―Edgar Allen Poe
They loved with feelings that couldn't be simply categorised as love. Their love was filled with compassion, care, passion and never-ending energy. Love is when we care, share not just happiness but grief too. Love will last in happiness, sadness and beyond death.
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ―Elizabeth Gilbert
We fall in love but love is not always meant to last forever for most of us. Having a broken heart shows that we truly loved. It symbolises that we strived for love and that we tried to make a relationship work. Love is a fighting force, and it is comforting to know that we tried fighting for something that we loved.
I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. ―Shana Abe
The pragmatic lot don't want silly love, the one that talks about reaching for heaven and stars. There is also a majority who don't aspire for superficial gains and luxuries in love. All those things can be achieved by us alone. All most of us want is someone who will walk with us throughout life and never make us feel lonely. Someone who will never hurt us and keep us safe and make us feel loved.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ―Bertrand Russell
We take a lot of care to avoid any kind of danger or harm. We keep all such things at bay that can bring us any kind of sorrow or regrets. Many people who are afraid of falling too hard in love, stay away from love too. And this can be the most dangerous behaviour as this can prevent you from having your only shot at true happiness. As much pain love can bring into our lives, it can also bring a lot of happiness that is enough to survive a lifetime.
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to getaway. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't come back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head. ―Henry Rollins
When we are in love, it is painful to let go of the person you are in love with. If we try too hard to hold on to something or someone, the more it goes away from us. It makes us feel wrong for wanting it all together, makes us feel we are fighting against destiny. It confuses us and makes us think that our feelings were wrong and belittle's us. It's hard to contain our love, and once it's out and not reciprocated, it hurts terribly.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love is not limited to admiring each other and being concerned only with them. It is much more than that. Love changes our entire life, our whole perspective of life. It makes us look at things in the same way as your partner does. It is something where the minds meet and have the same goal as the other person.
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. ―Emily Jane Brontë
Even If everything disappears from life and only the person we love remains, we can still find a reason to live for that person. If that person disappears and everything in this universe remains the same, then it becomes difficult to find a reason to survive. Without the existence of the only person who knows us, who loves us, the world becomes a stranger.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. ―Tom Bodett
As humans, we just need three things to be truly happy- someone who loves us and whom we can love back. Work that we enjoy doing, which will keep us occupied. And a dream that we can be hopeful for, something good to happen in the future as hope keeps us alive and excited.
Hearts are made to be broken. ―Oscar Wilde
We are filled with emotions, and our hearts are meant to be delicate, and it is bound to get scars and injury during its journey on this earth. When we love someone, we give them power over our heart. And sometimes getting hurt is a journey for the heart.
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.'... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. ―Maya Angelou
We can't love someone until we know how to love ourselves. In Africa, they say be cautious when a naked person offers us a shirt. The person who does not love himself might not be capable of loving at all. If he can't accept his own flaws and forgive his mistakes, he won't do the same for you.
If he's not calling you, it's because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you and then doesn't follow through on little things, he will do the same for big things. Be aware of this and realise that he's okay with disappointing you. ―Greg Behrendt
If someone cannot take some time for you and not calling you it means that you are not on their mind or even if you are, you are just not important enough to be prioritised over other things. If they are creating expectations and promises for small things like making a call or hanging out and not keeping it, they won't keep the promises when it comes to bigger things. Be cautious as they are bound to disappoint you and would be okay doing it.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. ― Vladimir Nabokov
If we are in true love, it won't dissipate with time. It will only grow. It will last till we are alive.
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did? ―Mother Teresa
God doesn't judge us by how many good deeds we do in our life or how much religious we were. God want us to love everything we do, to love every person we meet.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. ―Kahlil Gibran
When we love someone, we should let them go out of our lives if they want to. If they ever come back, they were always yours. If they never return, they were never ours. Letting go of someone is hard, but it is also a true testament to your love. If it comes back, your love wins and if it does not, then there was no love.
They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other. ―Nicholas Sparks
When we are in love with each other, it does not matter if we don't agree on everything or anything. We can fight all the time and challenge each other every day and have a lot of differences, but the most important thing is that our madness for each other is enough to make us stay together forever.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ―Ursula K. Le Guin
Love has to be carved and created like bread. It is not a readymade object that can be procured whenever we want. One has to work to keep a relationship exciting and interesting. Love should not be idle but always be worked upon to make it grow.
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. ―Suzanne Collins
We need a person in our life that is like a flower that blooms during spring, bright always gazing at the sun. The flower symbolises rebirth and not the end. It encourages the idea that life can keep moving forward. In means, we all need someone who can always look at the light, at the good thing. No matter how bad we lose, this person will always encourage us to be positive and will remind us that bad times will end one day, and all will be better once again.
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. ―Sarah Dessen
We never have a time or place for true love. It can happen at an unassumable time in our lives. It can occur at any moment, and when it happens, it's like a flash of light that leaves our heart beating.
We were together. I forget the rest. —Walt Whitman
When we are in love we are so engrossed with the person we are in love with that we forget everything else. Love is such a powerful feeling that it can make us forget all the pains in our lives. It can even make us forgive and forget the mistakes done by the person we are in love with.
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. —Sir Paul McCartney
Whatever you truly gain in this world is love. How much love you can give to others or invest in your work, the same amount will come back to you.
You always gain by giving love- Reese Witherspoon
We always gain by giving love we don't lose anything. Pure love is something which will not make us lose anything but will leave us with joy and growth.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ―Friedrich Nietzsche
There will always be some madness in love. When we are in love emotions, and not our rational mind directs our actions. This is not entirely a bad thing since this is what makes love so beautiful. It demands you to go all in, sacrificing anything you have to. It can surely be recklessness or madness, but a reasonable one since the object of all your love, the sheer joy of attaining it is worthy of all this struggle.
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away. ―Nicholas Sparks
The first time we fall in love it changes our perception and thinking forever and no matter how much we try that feeling will remain with us and never goes away that easily.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. ― Neil Gaiman
Love makes us vulnerable and horrible. It opens our heart and gives others access to our emotions, which means that we can easily be affected by anything they do.
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. ― Milan Kundera
When two people are in love, and they are lost in love so much that they forget the world that's a beautiful, a spectacular thing. They lose track of time and when they are with each other and forget about everything else.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long. ―Pablo Neruda
Love might remain with us only for a short period. But in this short time, it impacts us greatly. Such an impact it has that forgetting love is impossible and heartbreaking.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ―J.R.R. Tolkien
In the world, there are a lot of dark and miserable places. But with that, there is also a fair amount of good and pure. Love in the world might be combined with grief, but love will continue to grow more strongly than sorrow.
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot. ―Sarah Dessen
Our relationships are not perfect; it is filled with imperfections, and we are expected to succumb or compromise in a relationship to gain something bigger. Our love is bigger than these small imperfections and is the key. If love is a pie chart, then the biggest percentage consists of love in a relationship. Love can make up for a lot of mistakes and defects.
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. ―Stephanie Perkins
Home is where we can stay comfortably with peace, where we feel secure and safe. And when you find a person who loves you enough and makes you feel secure when you are with them, they become your home. Your home is no longer a building but the person you love and wherever they go, you go.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ―Joan Crawford
Our love is like a fire of passion. It will be beautiful and exciting, but it can also be dangerous. The passion can very easily turn into something nasty and become an obsession. When this happens, it can ruin our lives.
Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong. ―Rick Riordan
We should be aware of love it will play with our mind and leave us wondering about what is right and what is wrong. Love is a powerful emotion for one's mind, it can be misleading at times, and we ought to be aware of what we do in love.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ―James A. Baldwin
Love will always be beyond our expectations, and we can never predict how it's going to start or end. Love can be a constant struggle to be compatible with other people. And this struggle teaches us so many things. It makes us mature.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. ―Vincent Van Gogh
Love is not confined to one thing and can exist in various forms. It lies in the strength of the person who loves and more things he loves, the more he will gain. If something is done out of love, then it's correct and can bring us a lot of good things in return.
When love is not madness it is not love. ―Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Love is something which is insane and pure. A love without insanity is no love at all. Love without madness means you feel with inhibitions which means you are not really completely devoted to the other person.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. ―Charles Dickens
Loving someone can also demand us to love despite all the things that are going against it. We will have to abandon our reasons not to love, we will have to forgo our peace, sometimes we might even have to love without happiness and hope of a better future. This will be the real test of our love; to not quit on love against all kinds of discouragement, against all the odds.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ―Robert Frost
Love is the overwhelming longing to be irresistible by the object of our affection.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ― Emily Dickinson
If we can love a single person with all our heart and give them all that we have to offer, we can make them happy. If we can make even a single person happy, our life is not futile. We didn't waste our life for anything but instead brought joy to someone's life.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. ―Leo Tolstoy
Love is unique and different as the people who experience it. Just like each person has a mind of its own, we also love in our own way. We are attracted to different objects, and if we accept that love can be a spectrum and not a predefined limited feeling. Then we can accept all kinds of love as a natural state.
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. ―Roy T. Bennett
Love can bring a smile to others and make them hopeful of the future. It can make us believes in the goodness in the world.
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited. ―Cassandra Clare
Declaration of love can be surprising for the sheer courage it requires to through with it. It can even be more amusing if the love is unrequited. One can never fathom the courage it takes to declare your love to someone, whom you know will reject you.
A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. ―Max Lucado
Heart of a woman should be as pure like God that a man should seek God and in the process to find the woman eventually. Her love should be hidden so highly that in order to reach it, he has to do away with all the evils in his soul. And in this journey to gains her love, he will also gain a pure soul that will bring him closer to God.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. ―Ernest Hemingway
Love is a painful journey, and in the way to love, we lose ourselves. It is necessary to love yourself too till the end. It is tragic when one stops caring and loving own self because he gets too focused on making another person happy. If the only way you can make someone happy is by changing yourself and losing your true self, this love might not be worth it.
I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.― F. Scott Fitzgerald
Some people love another person so much that their whole life starts and end with them. There is no world outside of their life. They become the centre of their universe.
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul ―Victor Hugo
Love can make you feel like the happiest man even if you lack every other comfort in your life. A man with no money can still have spirits of the richest man when he is in love. Such is the power of love. It can compensate for all the things that are missing in your life and give you confidence and purpose.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ―Zelda Fitzgerald
Words cannot accurately measure love. Even the best of poets cannot determine how much the heart can hold. The depth of love is such that it is immeasurable. The heart is a deep space where love exists and its containment within is unknown.
Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom. ―William Shakespeare
The union of two souls defines love. It does not change with changing situations and circumstances. It cannot be removed whenever we want to. Love is a guiding light to the missing ships which will have no worth until they follow it safe to the shores. With time, beauty is lost, but love does not change with time. It lasts till the end of the world. If all this is not true, then love does not exist and no man was ever in love. For anything short of this definition is not love.
Co-author: Shreya Arya
A digital marketing enthusiast with experience in HR and hospital management, Shreya has wide interests ranging from philosophy, psychology to latest trends in automation. She is also a freelance content writer and loves lending beautiful words to ideas and feelings.
