Quotes on Real Love

Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

True love stories never have endings.

I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too.

Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.

We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.