T. D. Jakes Quotes

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

I have faith that I'll find love again, and if I don't, I'm okay with that.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

All romances end at marriage.

Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.

Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!

After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn’t want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous concept—as if there were any way that I could exist without needing you!

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

Sometimes I don't like people. And, you know, it doesn't bother me. The hard ones are when you really like somebody, really respect somebody and they make a mistake.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.