Lisa Kleypas Quotes

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn't care about the boy anymore.

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

I think it's hard to leave a relationship that you shouldn't be in. It's a self thing and not really realizing your worth and how much you deserve in love.

If coming out to someone makes them love you less, just know that I love you.

I want everybody to love me because I want to love back.

Never," said Gregor. "I'll never get rid of you, no matter how hard I try." It was no longer an effort to say the words. "I love you." "I love you, too," said Luxa. After that there was nothing left to say.

Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start.

You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know." Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve," Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.