8 Rules of Love Quotes

“I want to help you intentionally build love instead of wishing, wanting, and waiting for it to arrive fully formed.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Humility is honoring other people’s skills, abilities, and growth rather than dishonoring your own.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“«Las grandes mentes hablan de ideas; las mentes corrientes hablan de acontecimientos; las mentes pequeñas hablan de gente».”
― Jay Shetty, Las 8 reglas del amor: Cómo encontrarlo, mantenerlo y dejarlo ir

“Alone, we learn to love ourselves, to understand ourselves, to heal our own pain, and to care for ourselves. We experience atma prema, self-love.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. —ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Research shows that play is the mental state in which we learn best, and that play is essential for our mental health. When you attempt a new and challenging activity together in a space where success doesn’t matter, you can both let go and learn.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Seek out adventures that aren’t in either of your areas of expertise. You don’t want to attempt a sport where one of you has a natural advantage or to play a game that one of you has played for years. To build intimacy, you want to both be novices so that you feel inexperienced and curious together. You both feel similarly uncomfortable. You’re both going to learn something new. You’re going to need and rely on each other. A challenging hike, a visit to a haunted house, spelunking, roller skating, or (my favorite) an escape room. Intimacy builds as you expose yourselves to each other in a vulnerable moment. Once Radhi and I went to a paint room where they had easels, canvases, brushes, and paints. We were given overalls to wear, and they let us go crazy. It was new and liberating to spray paint wherever we wanted and to create without worrying about the end product.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Only years later did I find out that before World War II only 10 percent of engagement rings were set with diamonds. Then the diamond industry contrived to make them the official jewel of marriage and love.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“A guru offers guidance without judgment, wisdom without ego, love without expectation.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“You can seek love your whole life and never find it, or you can give love your whole life and experience joy.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“But actually the greatest way to experience love is to give it.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“The point of this story is that when you’re dealing with crocodiles, you should leave your heart at home. You can’t always be vulnerable. Sometimes it will be used against you.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Try to love someone for the spark in them, not what surrounds them.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“When someone is toxic, we can love them from a radius of respect.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“The Healing Power of Doing Good, looked”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Love means noticing that everyone is worthy of love and treating them with the respect and dignity their humanity automatically makes them deserve.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Steven Cole says that the best cure for loneliness or disconnection is to combine a sense of mission and purpose in your life with community engagement. Spending time in service marries connection with deep fulfillment, and the result is a boost in health. Prosocial behavior, including volunteering, has also been shown to boost our immune system, combat the physical stress caused by loneliness, and extend our longevity. Sadly, says Cole, these days too many of us have actually dialed back our engagement with others to pursue individual health-enhancing goals, like training for a triathlon, taking yoga classes, or trying to find our “one true love.” Those things are all great, but the biggest benefit for all comes when, as Cole describes it, your health is a “means to an end, which is, essentially, to make some meaningful stuff happen, not just for you but for others.” What”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“This story beautifully illustrates that we have different worth to different people. We are defined by what we accept. Part of what makes a breakup so hard is that this person who once valued us so highly no longer does. We’ve been devalued, but only by them. This is why we have to set our own worth and find someone who values us for who we are.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“At one point your partner brought value into your life. No matter how much you think you lost, no matter how hurtful it was, you should honor what they gave you.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Start by asking yourself: What did I do well in this relationship and what do I not want to repeat?”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“You existed before this relationship, and you will outlast it. When you think about your consciousness this way, you start to separate yourself from the pain that you feel in the moment. Acknowledge the pain, but understand where it resides and what has broken. What you created with your partner is being dismantled, but you are not being dismantled. Your life is not falling apart. You are not over. We may not feel this way, but if we believe it then we can take the steps needed to recover from the breakup, learn from it, and use it to bring that love back to all of our relationships.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Being judged in the short term is better than being stuck in the wrong situation for the long term. If the only way for you to sustain the relationship is to pretend to be someone you’re not, it’s time to think about ending it.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Being judged in the short term is better than being stuck in the wrong situation for the long term. If the only way for you to sustain the relationship is to pretend to be someone”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“A crack in a wall suggests a structural problem that needs addressing and shouldn’t be ignored for too long.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“But those new tensions are better than the old ones—because being depressed and confused and not knowing your dharma is worse than knowing it and struggling to make it work.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Helping each other fulfill your purposes is so central to the success of a relationship that in the traditional Vedic wedding ceremony it’s the final vow: “Together we will persevere in the path of dharma (righteousness), through this vehicle of householder life.” This doesn’t mean you take over their dharma. It means you make room for it.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“You have to love the lower parts. Life is not spent at the pinnacle. Those mountaintop events are only a tenth of 1 percent of the experience. Winners are still learning, experimenting, performing, and struggling.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Dreams don’t have to be big; they just have to be yours.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“We can’t avoid struggle, but the deeper we understand it, the more we can use it to grow.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go