22Love Quotes That Depict True Love

There is a lot of speculation and theories that float around in society about what true love is. They say that true love happens at first sight, that it's something you feel, and that it isn't a choice it either happens or doesn't. However, there are a lot of myths about true love out there, and that's why we see such a high divorce rate in our world-everyone is searching for true love and waiting for it to just happen to them.

In reality, true love is a lot more work than that. It is real, and it is wonderful, but it may not look like what you think it is going to. Here are some quotes that teach about true love.

1. "The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody's else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticize me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves."

- Alain de Botton -

2. "I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves."

- Dr. Steve Maraboli -

3. "There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves."

- Elizabeth Gilbert -

4. "Real love is when you love someone for who they are, accept them the way they are."

- Anurag Prakash Ray -

5."You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

- Jodi Picoult -

6. "I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others."

- Richelle E. Goodrich -

7. "True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice."

- Sadhu Vaswani -

8. "True love is choosing the many things a person did right rather than the one thing he did wrong. True love does not keep the record of wrongs."

- Unknown -

9. "He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing."

- Sherman Alexie -

10. "But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day."

- Nicholas Sparks -

11. "Real love isn't just a euphoric, spontaneous feeling it's a deliberate choice a plan to love each other for better and worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and in health."

- Seth Adam Smith -

12. "True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."

-Ricardo Montalban -

13. "It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

14. "True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding."

- Ellen White -

15. "You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments."

- Karen Salmansohn -

16. "True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!"

- Dada Vaswani -

17. "True love is not how you forgive, but how you forget, not what you see but what you feel, not how you listen but how you understand, and not how you let go but how you hold on."

- Dale Evans -

18. "We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together."

- Seth Adam Smith -

19. "Love isn't perfect. It isn't a fairytale or a storybook and it doesn't always come easy. Love is overcoming obstacles, facing challenges, fighting to be together, holding on and never letting go. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define, and impossible to live without. Love is work, but most of all, love is realizing that every hour, every minute, every second of it was worth it because you did it together."

- Unknown -

19. "Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure."

- Mother Teresa -

20. "Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions."

- Nhat Hanh -

21. "If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoke out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul."

- Shannon L. Alder -

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

- Monica Johnson -