If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Once you are incapable of loving yourself, you will never be able to love anybody. That is an absolute truth, there are no exceptions to it. You can love others only if you are able to love yourself.

In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

If you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

"Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over."

You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.

If you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others and you cannot stand to see others loved.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

"If you tell someone you love him, and that person says 'Well, I don't love you," is that a reason for you to suffer? Just because someone rejects you doesn't mean you have to reject yourself. If one person doesn't love you, someone else will love you. There is always someone else. And it's better to be with someone who wants to be with you than to be with someone who has to be with you.

You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.

Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair. Even if they tell you that they will change. Even if they tell you that they love you. Just remember, love isn’t meant to be permanently damaging. Love is meant to aid your healing.