It’s true, I can’t make you love me. But I can refuse to let you out of your cage.

You can never give love when you have never been loved.

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

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

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

You must have something in order to give it up.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

I can live neither with you, nor without you.

If you can’t love someone, leave them for those who can.

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

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Unless you can muse in a crowd all day
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can love, as the angels may,
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behoving and unbehoving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past —
Oh, never call it loving!

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them.