“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.”
- Meša Selimović
“You don’t need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul, but cracks to put their love into, is the most calming thing In this World.”
- Emery Allen
“Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.”
- Beau Taplin
“Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.”
- Bianca Sparacino
“A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.”
- Nizar Qabbani
“Love yourself enough to walk into only the rooms and situations that show care and love for you. Love yourself enough to walk out of the rooms that harm you in any way. Love yourself enough to hold the people who harm you accountable for their words and actions. Love yourself enough to express your wants, your needs, and your desires. Love yourself enough to tell the truth. Love yourself enough to keep yourself safe. Love yourself enough to say enough is enough when enough has become enough.”
- Cleo Wade
“Be honest about your intentions with everything. You never want to build any type of relationship on lies. That foundation will always fail.”
- Anon
“If someone wants you in their life, they will do anything to keep you in it. And if they don’t want you in their life, absolutely nothing you do or say will make them change their mind. Stop trying. Do not beg anyone to want you. You are much more worthy than that.”
- Najwa Zebian
“Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.”
- Brené Brown
“Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.”
- Ann Aguirre
“Stop glorifying the idea that the right person will just know the way to love you; that they’ll be able to just meet your emotional needs without you ever voicing them. Great relationships don’t happen because two mind readers come together, they happen because people communicate clearly and directly. They happen because they’re willing to teach another where their boundaries lie, and how they prefer to be loved.”
- Vienna Pharaon
“There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.”
- John Steinbeck
“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand — without you even speaking a word.”
- Yasmin Mogahed
“A relationship should not be measured in months or years. It’s the calibre of the memories that
matter. Their impact, their permanence, and the degree to which they change you. I’ve had
relationships lasting years I can now scarcely recollect, and hours with others that feel like
infinities.”
- Beau Taplin
“I think one of my favorite feelings is laughing with someone and realizing half way through how much you enjoy them and their existence.”
- Unknown
“Imagine if you loved yourself in the same way you loved another person; not caring about the
flaws in the body or inside the mind, seeing the virtues even bigger, supporting, taking care.
That would be a new level of self-esteem and another way to be indestructible.”
- Procure
“I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too.
And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.
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- Nikita Gill
“Please, keep looking. Not for a person, but for your passion, your love, your courage, your
goals, your dreams, your happiness, yourself. Keep looking. Explore yourself before you explore another. Know your worth, know yourself. Only then will you know what you need over what you want. You need yourself to become your own.
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- Anon
“Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because you’r empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.”
- Yasmin Mogahed
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
