Not Loving Enough Quotes

#1. We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#2. How sometimes your body couldn't tell the difference between not loving someone enough and loving someone too much.

Leesa Cross-Smith

#3. I loved him, every inch of his being, but i realised one day; if loving him meant losing me, than loving him was not enough anymore.

Nikki Rowe

#4. Confidence is about knowing, and loving yourself enough to not compare yourself to others

Steven Aitchison

#5. It is funny how when you have been hurt in love and you fall in love again, every reason you have for loving that person is both enough and not, all at once.

R. YS Perez

#6. Maybe we don't ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love's grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

Catherynne M Valente

#8. Being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

Anna Quindlen

#9. Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Angelus Silesius

#10. Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

Miranda Kerr

#11. But the truth stretched out in front of him; loving her hadn't been enough. Not enough for her.

Sherry Shahan

#12. Forgiveness: It's not because they deserve it; it's because you do. Sometimes forgiveness is about loving yourself enough to move on.

Steve Maraboli

#13. She wakes up loving him, but not hard enough. He has dandelion hair. Stars fall and zip between them, they can't stop laughing; she falls asleep curled around him like a comma. He is gay, and often, he reminds her that she deserves better. She nods seriously and then forgets.

Meg Pokrass

#14. Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. One of my roommates called it 'agape.' I'd never heard the word before, but it was her favorite word, and I was instantly enamored because the definition of agape is loving a person for exactly who they are - not who we hope they'll become with enough fixing.

Hannah Brencher

#16. The sad truth is,
we are all grown ups and most of us are
matured.
However, not all of us are old enough to
accept that loving someone doesn't
guarantee you that they will love you in
return.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#17. We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.

Mandy Hale

#18. You've gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.

Mandy Hale

#19. I know it. I feel it. I want it. Loving you is so damn easy that it terrifies me. Not loving you, but the fear of losing it because I'm not good enough.

Lynetta Halat

#20. If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.

Karen Salmansohn

#21. She smiled into his mouth. "That was ... wow."
"It's always wow. You're wow. I'll never get enough of you, Lydia. Not after ten years in dreams; not after forever in real life.

Dianna Hardy

#22. You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.

Michelle Hodkin

#23. Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. It is not enough to be loving, you have to be sympathetic, kind, caring, and compassionate.

Debasish Mridha

#25. It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

Jane Austen

#26. He doesn't quite kiss me, even though he's close enough to. I look at him, loving the quiet and the quirk of his mouth when he smiles, thinking I could stick around this guy for always and be happy, thinking I could count his eyelashes and not get bored.

Hannah Johnson

#27. Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

James Hillman

#28. If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.

Graham Greene

#29. Gratitude- not only for once loving her, but loving her still, enough to forgive...

Jane Austen

#30. We're all unique and we all have our own talents. If you keep acknowledging your assets and accomplishments , and strive to be the best you can be, you'll let that 'not good enough' mentality go and be on your way to loving yourself, no matter what.

Jude Bijou

#31. You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough.

Mary Balogh

#32. Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

Harold S. Kushner

#33. Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner.

Francine Rivers

#34. Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

Mandy Hale

#35. It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

George Wald

#36. Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

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