You're Not Loving Too Hard You're Just Loving The Wrong People

“It is better to have a heart which is larger than life and ask life to expand, than to try to cage the only thing worth living for. Be proud in all that you love. Love fiercely, but remember the things that are worthy of your heart. It is a precious gift, and the larger its size, it seems, the easie…”

— Becca Allen, rebellesociety.com

“You’ve given your heart many times, and I know it’s tired. You’re tired. But you should know that one day, someone is going to love you back so hard, exactly the way you love, and you’ll forget about all this pain you’re feeling now.”

— Lux Montagne, thoughtcatalog.com

“You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.”

— Nikita Gill, thoughtcatalog.com

“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”

— Warsan Shire, amazon.com

“I pray you find someone who loves you unconditionally, someone who is eternally grateful for having you. Someone who values you even in your darkest.”

— Bogart Lee, thoughtcatalog.com

“I hope that you do not let the world condemn you for being too loud, too expressive, too soft; that you do not let it convince you to be perfect instead of real. I truly hope that you celebrate the fact that you are not for everyone, that you are not impressing the kinds of people who were built on…”

— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com

“I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”

— Lisa Kleypas, thoughtcatalog.com

“You’ve got to find what you love...Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it.”

— Steve Jobs, news.stanford.edu

“Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but ‘safe’ isn’t one of them.”

— Mandy Hale, amazon.com

“Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“I believe in true love. I believe in love at first sight. I believe love conquers all. And that doesn't mean there's not gonna be hard days or difficult things to deal with, because there will be. But finding that person who does it for you and knowing that person loves you back it just makes everyt…”

— Haley James Scott, amazon.com

“Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.’”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”

— Ray Bradbury, books.google.com

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”

— Miriam Adeney, goodreads.com

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

— Sam Keen, amazon.com

“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.'”

— Maya Angelou, en.wikiquote.org

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness,…”

— Louis de Bernieres, amazon.com

“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”

— Charlie Chaplin, pinterest.com

“There is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shore, no matter how many times it is sent away.”

— Unknown, like-thorns-on-a-rose.tumblr.com

“To the girls who get called sensitive too often, don’t let the bitter in heart stop you from feeling everything deeply. To feel is to experience life fully.”

— Sarah Ashley, thoughtcatalog.com

“The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”

— Stephen Kendrick, amazon.com

“she gave all that she had she tried when you didn't and she'll walk away knowing that in the end you were not worthy of her love.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“Fall in love with a guy who makes an effort. The guy who doesn’t throw in the towel when things get hard, who doesn’t storm away and run when you have a disagreement. A guy who is willing to sit down and talk through shit, even when it’s uncomfortable or hard. A guy who is always honest, always dire…”

— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com

“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“The way he stared at her, like a blind man seeing the light for the first time, like a mother looking into the eyes of her newborn baby, like an explorer discovering a new divinci.”

— Stephanie Meyer, wiseoldsayings.com

“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.com

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

— Iain Thomas, iwrotethisforyou.me

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com