32 Quotes That Will Make You Rethink Everything You've Known About Love And Relationships

32 quotes

"For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation." - Rainer Maria Rilke

“Happiness [is] only real when shared.”

— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, share, Relationships, Love, one perfect sentence

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

Tagged: Tom Robbins

“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”

— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Escape, Past, Future

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriat…”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

Tagged: Tom Robbins

“People are never perfect, but love can be.”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

Tagged: Tom Robbins

“When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we…”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

Tagged: Tom Robbins

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

— Lao Tzu, philosiblog.com

Tagged: True Love, Love, Deep Love, Courage, strength

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that whil…”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships, Self-Esteem

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

Tagged: Tom Robbins

“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: heart, Loss, Relationships

“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself int…”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, Detached, vulnerability, Experience

“The story of love is not important- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”

— Helen Hayes, amazon.com

Tagged: Capable Of Love, Eternity, Glimpse

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Haruki Murakami

“Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without.”

— Jared Leto, pinterest.com

Tagged: Love, Truth About Love, real love, Defining Love

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.’”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Haruki Murakami

“Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.”

— Osho, amazon.com

Tagged: Osho

“No relationship will ever make you whole, happy, or fulfilled. That’s the little-known fact about relationships that no one likes to talk about because it’s not as romantic as the idea of someone else coming into the picture and filling your life with sunshine and rainbows. The truth is that you nee…”

— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com

Tagged: Dating Advice, Guy Advice, Relationship Advice

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

— Osho, amazon.com

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“It’s not about finding a perfect person but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

— Sam Keen, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Truth About Love, Imperfection, real love

“Without communication, there is no relationship. Without respect, there is no love. Without trust, there is no reason to continue.”

— Unknown, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Truth About Love

“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking ab…”

— Bob Marley, amazon.com

Tagged: Forever With You

“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

Tagged: The Person You'll Become, Love, Philosophy

“You lose yourself trying to hold onto someone who doesn’t care about losing you.”

— Lao Tzu, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth About Love, Losing Someone, Love, Holding On

“Life is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.”

— Shannon L. Alder, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth About Love, Reality Of Love, Love, Fight For Each Other

“If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.”

— Shannon L. Alder, thinkpozitive.com

Tagged: Leaving, Self-Love, Self-Worth

“Your soulmate is not someone that comes into your life peacefully. It is someone who comes to make you question things, who changes your reality, somebody that marks a before and after in your life. It is not the human being everyone idealized, but an ordinary person, who manages to revolutionize yo…”

— Unknown, facebook.com

Tagged: Change, Right Guy, Dating

“A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.”

— Shannon Alder, facebook.com

Tagged: heart, Love, Relationships

“It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soul mate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition, a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect…”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Marriage, Soul Mates, This Is Love, True Love

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some compleme…”

— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com

Tagged: soulmates, Soul Mates, The One, Finding The One, Love

“Real love has little to do with falling. It's a climb up the rocky face of a mountain, hard work, and most people are too selfish or too scared to bother. Very few reach the critical point in their relationship that summons the attention of the light and the dark, that place where they will make a c…”

— Stacey Jay, amazon.com