“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Love, real love, Reciprocation
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens…”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.comTagged: Life, Love, Taking Risks, Emotion, Betrayal
“There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Unrequited Love
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Love, Change
“I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that’s okay.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Endings, Acceptance, Moving On, Love
“You knew me once, but you won’t know me twice.”— James Joyce, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Change, Starting Over
“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, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating
“Given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, Relationships, romance
“What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling Out Of Love, Lifespan, Change
“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Success, Self-Concept, Human Nature
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Letting Go, Love, Relationships, Greed, Acceptance
“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Chance, People, Ego, Love And The Ego
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Illness, Passion
“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Being In Love, Relationships, Perspective, Reality
“"If I never love anyone again the way I have loved you" he said, "that will be a relief."”— Mia Hollow, twitter.comTagged: Love, Relief, Falling In Love, Falling Out Of Love
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: People, Idealism, Love, Relationships, Fantasy
“‘Well,’ the Goddess said, 'your heart didn’t heal straight the last time it broke. So we’ll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.’”— Jane Yolen, amazon.comTagged: Heartbreak, Love, Relationships, Breakups, Starting Over
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.comTagged: Love, Pain, Healing, Self-Love, Self-Help
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it a…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Pain, Healing, strength
“The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled,tooth and nail, out of hell.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Suffering, Pain, Overcoming, Overcoming Obstacles, Rising To Challenges
“I like to think that somewhere out there, on a planet exactly like ours, two people exactly like you and me made totally different choices and that somewhere, we're still together. That's enough for me.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Choices, Decisions, Love, Alternate Universes, Other Lives
“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.comTagged: Love, Pain, Breakups, strength, Weakness
“Sometimes what we want isn’t what’s best for us.”— Abbi Glines, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Toxic Relationships, Healthy Love, Self-awareness
“Hearts don’t break, y’all, they bruise and get better. We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You call 9 – 1 – 1. Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.comTagged: Heartbreak, Healing, Love, Broken Hearts, Redemption
“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Love, Pain, Sadness, Acceptance, Broken Heart
“If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Love, Change, Letting Love In, Relationships
“Happiness is the China shop; love is the bull.”— H.L. Mencken, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Happiness, Destruction
“There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.comTagged: Love, Leaving, Saying Goodbye, Holding On, Relationships
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Pain, Loss, Grief, Breakups
“Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel. So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Love, Withholding Love