(13 quotes found)
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”
Sam Keen
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss
“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. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
Neil Gaiman
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde
“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
Barbara De Angelis
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich
“The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.”
Victor Hugo
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
Roy Croft
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
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