Quotes on Art Of Loving

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.