Byron Katie Quotes

In love, anger is always false.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

I love you, Kitten. Don't try to get out of this. We'll see if you love me when I pay you back. Even then I will love you, Bones called out as I stomped away.

There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

a real man is happy and eager to live by your rules, as long as he knows what the rules are and he's sure that abiding by those rules will help keep the woman he loves happy

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

I feel love for people that I have loved, and I think that's so beautiful, and I think that's such an important lesson for children that people can have disagreements but it doesn't mean one is bad and one is good.