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You Aren't Loving Wrong You're Just Loving The Wrong People

I pray you find someone who loves you unconditionally. 
Kirsten Corley
February 23, 2017
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Love, enhance, humanity, support
“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: The Person You'll Become, Love, Philosophy
“When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we've loved others and whether they've loved us.”
— Oprah, What I Know For Sure
Tagged: Wisdom, Love, Oprah, Loving Others, Spreading Love, Pay It Forward
“I am sorry they mistook your kindness for weakness, Don’t they know? It takes a strong heart to pump all this blood, all this trying, all this willingness to be open when everyone around is trying to force you closed. You warrior with a purple heart. You lover with a Grand Canyon of possibility. There is so much space in you. That’s a good thing. That’s beautiful.”
— Ari Eastman, An Anthem For Everyone Who Keeps Loving And Trusting No Matter What
Tagged: Beautiful, Ari Eastman, Love, Nature, Poetry, Emotion, heart
“I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.”
— Claire LaZebnik, Epic Fail
Tagged: Love, Getting Lost, Co-dependency, Relationships, Falling In Love
“Soulmate is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.”
— Hilary Duff, Devoted
Tagged: Love, soulmate, Dating, Relationships
“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Love, Dating, realtionships
“Fall in love with someone who sees the wars within you and not only chooses to stay, but chooses to stand by your side and help you fight them. Strive to find someone who cradles your dark, who embraces your light, someone who always wants to be your best when you yourself are not your best; someone who reminds you of every strong thing you are whenever you feel feeble.”
— Bianca Sparacino, Fall In Love With Someone Who Makes It Impossible To Love Anyone Else
Tagged: Bianca Sparacino, Love, Fall in love
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: soulmates, Made for Each Other, Two Bodies (One Soul), Fear of losing someone
“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, Fur
Tagged: Pain, Love, Choosing Love, Compassion, strength, Hatred
“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, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, real love, Reciprocation
“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, Twilight
Tagged: Love, First Love
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“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 direct, and speaks kindly.”
— Jacob Geers, Fall In Love With A Guy Who Shows The Fuck Up
Tagged: Love, Relationships, expression, Falling In Love
“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, Whiskey, Words, and A Shovel
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“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, The Love Dare
Tagged: Love, Forever, Relationships, Marriage, Break Up
“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, To The Girls Still Searching For Big Love
Tagged: Feelings, Sensitive, Love
“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 the foundations of a sad world. If there is anything you do, please, let yourself rejoice in the fact that you do not fit in, that you think differently, because there is a chaos that laughs inside of you and it is going to change lives. It is going to make even the cynics believe again. It is going to grow love from thorn and glass.”
— Bianca Sparacino, You Are Not For Everyone
Tagged: For The Ones Who Are Hard To Love
“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, Being Difficult To Love Doesn’t Make You A Failure, It Makes You Human
Tagged: For The Ones Who Are Hard To Love
“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”
— Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark)
Tagged: For The Ones Who Are Hard To Love
“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, You Are A Daughter Of The Sun
Tagged: For The Ones Who Are Hard To Love
“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, This Is For The Girl Who Feels Everything
Tagged: For The Ones Who Are Hard To Love
“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 easier it is for people to take it for granted.”
— Becca Allen, To The Girls Whose Hearts Are Too Big For This World.
Tagged: For The Ones Who Are Hard To Love
“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, via Tumblr
Tagged: Summer, Kissing The Shore, Summer Love, Forever Love, Love
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
— Charlie Chaplin, via Pinterest
Tagged: Love, Intimacy, Naked, Being Naked
“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, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being ‘in love’, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
— Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“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, The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
— Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Dating, Finding Your Person, Perfect Fit
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: one perfect sentence, Love, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“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, Kingdom Without Borders
Tagged: Architecture Of Happiness, Pursuit of Happiness, Love, travel, Homesickness