Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

There is nothing you can control about love.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Being a father taught me patience. And it taught me vulnerability. You don't realize how vulnerable you are when you love something else more far more than yourself.

Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there's no ideal - a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.