“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
Source: Once and Always
John Dufresne (1948) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright
Source: Love Warps the Mind a Little
“You have to be careful who you let define your good.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Letter to his fiancée, Martha Bernays (2 June 1884)
1880s
Dinah Shore (1916–1994) American singer and actress
Quoted in Sy Safransky: Sunbeams: a book of quotations, (1990), Page 124 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A5NiEt9h2AIC&pg=PA124&dq=%22Trouble+is+a+part+of+your+life,+and+if+you+don%27t+share+it,%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4IUxT6rKFMzfsgbC6tyVBA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Trouble%20is%20a%20part%20of%20your%20life%2C%20and%20if%20you%20don%27t%20share%20it%2C%22&f=false
“It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Variant: It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Source: Clockwork Angel