Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

If there is anything worth serving, it's this love. If there is anything worth being, it's this love. If there is anything worth talking about it's this love. If there is anything of real value it's this love.

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

True love is an acceptance of someone else for who they are.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Real love is unconditional.

Real love isn't ever ambivalent.

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

You are free to love without an agenda

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond."

God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.