10 realistic quotes about love
Despite what romantic movies portray, love isn’t always rainbows and butterflies (although sometimes it definitely is). These are the quotes that sum up what love is really like.
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
“The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.” – Harriet Lerner
“There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another. Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important.” – Helen Fisher
“Behind every complaint there is deep personal longing.” – John Gottman
“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.” – Eric Fromm
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” – Blaise Pascal
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” – Lao Tzu
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe