"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

Unknown, Source | Love | 7 bookmarks

"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

Voltaire | Self-love | 4 bookmarks

"There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved."

Sand, George | Love | 12 bookmarks

"The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance."

Hwang, Brian | Ignorance | 10 bookmarks

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

Burke, Edmund | Patriotism | 4 bookmarks

"Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."

Mooneyham, Stan | Love | 8 bookmarks

"If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."

Oakley, Ann | Love | 3 bookmarks

"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thich Nhat Hanh | Love | 14 bookmarks

"To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney | Love | 11 bookmarks

"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard | Giving | 12 bookmarks