“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”

“… he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.”

Patrick Süskind book The Pigeon

“I cannot love I. I can only love you”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist

“Shower the people you love with love.
Show them the way that you feel.
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will (do as I say, yeah).
Shower the people you love with love.
Show them the way that you feel.
Things are gonna be much better if you only will.”

James Taylor (1948) American singer-songwriter and guitarist

“Who are you, anyway?
-Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot