"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."— Erich Fromm
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See all topics →Teach only love for that is what you are.
— A Course In Miracles
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
— Diane Ackerman
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
— Alfred Adler
Love is a great beautifier.
— Louisa May Alcott
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
— Nelson Algren
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
— Woody Allen
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— Mark Twain
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
— George Bernard Shaw
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
— Les Brown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.
— Source Unknown
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
— Barbara De Angelis
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson