Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
-Ernest Hemingway
"Men Without Women"
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
Love is a great thing, greatest of all goods, because it alone renders light every burden and bears equally all that is unequal.
-Jesus Christ
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
-Sinclair B. Ferguson
The lover flies, runs and rejoices; he is free and nothing can restrain him. He gives all for all and has all in all.
-Jesus Christ
Love is not something we do, love is something we are.
-Cliff Barry
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin