the love QUOTES

1 " We accept the love we think we deserve. "

2 " 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 , This Lullaby

3 " And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make. "

― , The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

4 " When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. "

― Jimi Hendrix

5 " What greater gift than the love of a cat. "

― Charles Dickens

6 " The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. "

― Mahatma Gandhi

7 " There is no love sincerer than the love of food. "

― George Bernard Shaw , Man and Superman

8 " I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. "

― Veronica Roth , Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

9 " The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. "

― Paulo Coelho , Eleven Minutes

10 " The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten. "

― William Faulkner

11 " Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. "

― Scott Dikkers , You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

12 " The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. "

13 " You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. " It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go. "

14 " I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor. "

― W. Somerset Maugham , The Painted Veil

15 " The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. "

― Charles Dickens , Great Expectations

16 " Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling. "

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17 " We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. "

― Marianne Williamson

18 " But what was there to say?

Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much. "

― Arundhati Roy , The God of Small Things

19 " Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

1. Acceptance
2. Understanding
3. Appreciation

Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.

Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?

So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole. "

― Vera Nazarian , The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

20 " It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless. "

― Andrew Solomon , The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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