Do not love me because i love you, love me for loving me.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'

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."