31 No-Nonsense Quotes About Love That Will Help You Cut Through The Bullshit

“Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship.”

— Shannon L. Alder, oldquotes.com

“BREAKING NEWS: The Pity Train has just derailed at the intersection of Suck It Up and Move On, and crashed into We All Have Problems, before coming to a complete stop at Get The Hell Over It.”

— someecards, someecards.com

“Tough love is real love. Why? Because it's never easy. It hurts the giver far more than the receiver.”

— Bobby W. Miller, successories.com

“If it's important to you, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.”

— Jim Rohn, amazon.com

“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.”

— Art Williams, amazon.com

“Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a two second rebound rate, and then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass…”

— Noah, amazon.com

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”

— Noah, amazon.com

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.”

— 500 Days of Summer, amazon.com

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

— Dale Carnegie, huffingtonpost.com

“And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Many of us choose relationships of affection and care that will never become loving because they feel safer. The demands are not as intense as loving requires. The risk is not as great. So many of us long for love but lack the courage to take risks. Even tough we are obsessed with the idea of love t…”

— Bell Hooks, huffingtonpost.com

“In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is constantly critical of you, one who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault…”

— Jeffrey R. Holland, lds.org

“SELFLESS LOVE. If you have a special person in your life, but you find yourselves arguing, irritated and/or fighting out of the blue… you both need to try to step back and be selfless and think of the other person... with no ego of your own. No ego. We are ALL dealing with our own tough issues. We m…”

— José N. Harris, marianna68.com

“They say being in love and loving someone are two different things, right? I mean, you love your best friend, but you love your husband, right? Falling in love with someone is easy. It's loving when the newness has worn off, when life gets tough, when things get in the way, when physical passion is…”

— Mia Asher, amazon.com

“There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love—it's sort of undeniable.”

— Piper Perabo, getinspired365.com

“Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you...”

— Pablo Neruda, poemhunter.com

“Life moves on and so should we.”

— Spencer Johnson, amazon.com

“For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again—still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions—pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all inter…”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com

“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.”

— Jennifer Weiner, amazon.com

“For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not. Now the most important thing about me is that I’m old.”

— Nora Ephron, amazon.com

“What’s that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.”

— Alanis Morrisette, theguardian.com

“When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you’ve created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stam…”

— Helen Fielding, amazon.com

“When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward, like I was forgetting to do something. My lif…”

— Lish McBride, amazon.com

“Some of us think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com

“Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?”

— Donna Lynn Hope, amazon.com

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. 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…”

— Henry Rollins, amazon.com

“Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”

— Miss Piggy, amazon.com

“Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one he…”

— Jennifer Salaiz, amazon.com

“Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.”

— Jean Kerr, qotd.org

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray, amazon.com