Love Standards Quotes

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.

Guys think of love as a feeling, which means that if you do something wrong you can still love somebody. So guys are constantly screwing up and then saying, "But I love you!" And girls have a different standard for love.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.

I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.