Love Boundaries Quotes

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

The greatest encouragement throughout the Bible is God's love for His lost race and the willingness of Christ, the eternal Son, to show forth that love in God's plan of redemption. The love of Jesus is so inclusive that it knows no boundaries. At the point where we stop caring and loving, Jesus is still there loving and caring

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

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

Knowing he was suffering pained me. That’s the way love tangles you up. I couldn’t stop loving him, and couldn’t shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him— but I also didn’t have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.

what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.

You don't know how to love without condition.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.