Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
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Related How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th... CHLOE THURLOW Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the d... ROBIN SACREDFIRE Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori... TOMOKO HAYAKAWA Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth. CJ HECK Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Love is insanity, apparently. COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �... JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry. J.R. MORALES If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swappi... DAVID COTTRELL Love ? Love is when you are ready to do every possible and positive thing for someone, SID There’s a reason for the word heartbeat not be called beat of heart. The perfect woman only needs ... ROBIN SACREDFIRE Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal... GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag... GAUTAMA BUDDHA The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do ... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Love does not depend on circumstance - it is a decision, not a feeling. J.R. MORALES Contrary to popular belief, love is not found. It is achieved. J.R. MORALES True love is not based on what you have, but it is based on who you really are. UNKNOWN Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i... JOHN WATERS When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--lo... HENRY VAN DYKE I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people sa... DAVID SEDARIS Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer... J. KRISHNAMURTI Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI The giving of love is an education in itself. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Who says you can't fall in love on your own?
Whenever you listen to music, close your eyes...
And th... MAICHEE SUMMER Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin... NELLIE CHRISTINE True love is not giving power to the other person, but instead is empowering you to make that person... CARLOS SALINAS If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love... SADHU VASWANI Life is a game and true love is a trophy. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have. TOM KRAUSE Some say that "there is no such thing as free lunch". And, I ask, why not? The joy of giving w... ANA ORTEGA Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr... GARY F EVANS... Make no mistake: girls love getting head as much as giving head. Giving head is good for your health... CHLOE THURLOW What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER If love isn't embedded withing giving, then it would be best to never give at all, for love and givi... ALOY RICKETTS Fifty dollars is conservative. The 'powers that be' worry about giving away something and not gettin... BRIAN PLATTER I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposel... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposel... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposel... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Love. What is it truly? Love is a spiritual state, an intangible, often insatiable need to put one's... BELLA VESPIRA What is love? It's not empathy, nor kindness. Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the... NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring wha... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In love there are two things: giving pleasure and receiving it. MARTY RUBIN The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need ... RAM DASS They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other... PARUL WADHWA Love always won in the end. No matter how it happened, no matter what it took, no matter what it mea... B.J. NOVAK What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain... ANGELA N. BLOUNT True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is app... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is app... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is app... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He wanted more than anything, to walk over the bridge. To just leave Oyster Point and go to college ... TARA ALTEBRANDO Love is never worth giving up on. LEIGH FALLON I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not g... LEO BUSCAGLIA One thing that's true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they... ANGELA DUCKWORTH I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, ... MICHAEL R. FRENCH It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ... C. JOYBELL C. Being in love is the only transcendent experience. ARMISTEAD MAUPIN Morality and righteousness is based on intent, love, and in giving; yet, how is it that we as humans... FORREST CURRAN If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you'... PATTI STANGER Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakn... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Love is based on imagination. OLIVIER MARTINEZ Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire se ressembler. Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire être pareils, se conduire co... JUSTINE LéVY The Universal law for getting what you desire in life is by giving what you lack. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and t... JEFFREY FRY Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between t... POPE THEODOROS II Don't love what you do, love who you are. J.R. RIM Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, wit... GAVIN O'CONNOR Love is not valuable more than friendship. No sir. Love is always in need of taking. Friendship inde... WOHI PURANA Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit... MOTHER TERESA Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world. DEBASISH MRIDHA True Love is when you fall in love all over again just thinking about her and remembering all the me... MICHAEL HENDERSON Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it's something rare and beautiful when peo... E.A. BUCCHIANERI Love is not running away or giving up, it is standing and fighting for every moment. M.F. MOONZAJER Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The c... GARY ZUKAV The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s... WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ... LERCHE NJANG Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in ... NADIA BOULANGER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so muc... RAM DASS In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way make... MARLA GIBBS In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way make... MARLA GIBBS My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion r... NICHOLAS SPARKS Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... ANONYMOUS Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... NICHOLAS SPARKS (THE NOTEBOOK) Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... NICHOLAS SPARKS The beauty of Love is that it can be possessed individually as well as in Union. You can love even i... ASHISH SOPHAT I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your... DAN PINK Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM We are faithful as long as we love, but you demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and th... LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Love without giving is just human selfishness SUNDAY ADELAJA Giving love and not getting it back wounds the heart, but loving someone in silence without the cour... STEPHANY CROWLEY
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ALLAN ADLER So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directl... ALLAN ADLER The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold descript... FREDA ADLER It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply... RENATA ADLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. ALFRED ADLER Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest go... FELIX ADLER That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the he... FREDA ADLER Man know much more than he understands. ALFRED ADLER The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t... ALFRED ADLER Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, o... RENATA ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi... ALFRED ADLER