Gary Chapman Quotes

Choose your love, Love your choice.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

You can't force people to love you. If you love somebody, you love them because you love them. People who love you, it doesn't matter; if you're good or bad, they will still love you.

I will not be touched if someone says, 'I do not love you.' You have the right. You do not have to love me.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

I'm in the world where things are taken, never given. How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.

I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.

fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?

When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

You just have to let people love you in the way they can

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

I love you if you love me.

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

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I was in love with someone very much, but he didn't love me and never would. I had a very difficult time accepting that. But I had hurt him very much, and I could see why he could never love me.

What matters is that my daughter is surrounded by love. I believe in the right to go down the path that feels best for you.

I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.