Quotes About Love

The suffering of mental illness, whether for the afflicted or for their families, is typically marked by isolation. When people desperately need to experience the love and empathy of their fellow human beings and to know that their Creator has not abandoned them, many reach out and are shocked to touch the church's painfully cold shoulder.

I tried not to love you," she said, "but it didn't work." He pulled her toward him, held her face. "I feel lucky," he said.

Lane kept trying to find her happiness in men, but it didn't work. Is that something you relate to personally?

Just because you admired someone didn't mean he was your soul mate.

She wanted to be his more than she wanted him to be faithful.

Her desire for him had been so great that she had been willing to accept a kind of lumpy half-love, flawed, temporal, and incomplete.

It seems your problem is the same one we all have. You don't know if you are truly loved.

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

Still, my sister alive meant more to me than any coin.

Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. (from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952)

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

The things a mother does well are always invisible compared to the things she does badly.

lower my voice instead of raise it, model flexibility rather than impatience, embrace my child rather than my frustration. I

a mother should, above all, make her children feel safe. Perhaps

I'm happiest with my family around me.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Children could vanish without trace, but not parents.

Conversion is a matter of the heart, not of the academy; polemics function more to "speak to the choir" and shore up internal unity rather than to facilitate understanding, let alone to show love of neighbor.