1.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy
"When you adore somebody, you love them unconditionally and accept them just as they are."
2.
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
Bill Russell
To cherish someone is nothing, to be cherished by someone is something, to cherish someone who cherishes you is everything.
3.
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
William Shakespeare
Do not lavish affection on someone who does not esteem it.
4.
You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.
Tupac Shakur
You never cease to adore someone; you simply learn how to exist without them.
5.
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.
Zayn Malik
'Loving someone who does not reciprocate is like expecting a train in the sky.'
6.
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
Janis Joplin
7.
As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.
Ram Dass
8.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Jean de la Bruyere
9.
Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into a healthier state of being. Without deep reverence for the beloved, such a refreshing stream cannot flow from the heart of the lover.
Vatsyayana
11.
Anyone can say the love someone....It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love.
Jessica Jung
12.
Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.
Humberto Maturana
13.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
William Blake
14.
Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts.
Robert A. Johnson
15.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
Nhat Hanh
16.
He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
Ann Brashares
17.
I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
Kaley Cuoco
18.
You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.
Maya Angelou
19.
Loving someone always requires you to not love others.
Koushun Takami
20.
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T
21.
Loving someone is tiring and it hurts, but it's not something I can stop.
Youngjae
22.
Loving someone who doesn't love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it's going to hurt.
Unknown
23.
Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that's what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him.
Jacques Derrida
24.
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.
Thomas a Kempis
25.
If you read 1 John you'll see that love of God and neighbour are very closely tied together. Partly this is because all humans are made in God's image, so that when you love another human you are loving someone who is reflecting God himself. Of course there is a distinction but the minute you try to drive a wedge between the two things start to fall apart.
N. T. Wright
26.
Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.
Louise Hay
27.
When you know my love, my love will warm you.
Ruby Dee
28.
Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with
Fyodor Dostoevsky
30.
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
Rob Bell
31.
I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
Sarah Dessen
32.
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
Nicholas Sparks
34.
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya Angelou
35.
Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.
Axel
36.
Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.
Michael Jackson
37.
Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same
Merle Shain
38.
There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.
Jerry Hall
39.
There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.
Tarryn Fisher
40.
Why was love such an addictive drug? Why did loving someone cause such suffering?
Guillaume Musso
42.
Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.
Monica Murphy
43.
I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.
Sarah Silverman
45.
Relationships carry the whole universe within them. They can be everything, nothing, here, then gone. One moment, loving someone makes you shine; the next, it feels like matter and antimatter colliding.
Judith Orloff
46.
Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
William Shakespeare
47.
Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.
Teresa Mummert
48.
Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.
Richelle Mead
50.
Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.
Gayle Forman