“Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.” NeedsProblemCultureLove IsSolutionsIllusionPhantomsNeed Love Book:The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time Source: The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time
“Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.” WorldWayMeanRealValuesCultureLove IsLoversEthicsStructurePrivilegeDisappearReal LoveNormBeing In LoveMean Love Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.” LoveGivingHumansCultureNationsCommunityLove IsExistenceCoupleReceivingHuman ExistenceGlueGiving And ReceivingReceiving Love Author:G. Frank Lawlis
“If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.” IfsMayValuesCultureLove IsQualityMissingAmbitionPursuitOur Love Book:The Art of Travel Source: The Art of Travel
“Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.” WritingFeelingsSchoolCultureNamesForgetLove IsStreetsTaughtKingsRememberedIrrelevantLuther Author:Bell Hooks
“Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.” ImportantCultureLanguageChanceLove IsPowerfulSuccessfulNotionBeing SuccessfulMost PowerfulPower Of LoveImportant WordsCulture And Language Author:Bill Walton
“My heart and my love is in the country because something feels pure and noble and good there, but at the same time, obedience draws me to cities, which are full of cultures that are interesting and fun. I always swore I hated New York. Since having this revelation that cities are where people are, where the need is, I'm growing to love New York.” PeopleNeedsFeelsHeartCountryCultureFunLove IsInterestingCitiesGrowingNew YorkMy HeartPureDrawsNobleObedienceHatedRevelations Author:Josh Garrels
“You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along the way, not the places I've been, that have opened my eyes.” PeopleKnowsWayDifferentEyeCultureLove IsMetsExposedDifferent CulturesPlaces I've Been Author:Amy Adams
“The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.” NeedsMeanEnoughCultureLove IsMarriedFollowingPhrasesSincerelyBeing Married Author:Mark Hart
“Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.” MenCultureEvilStrongFeltLove IsSeparationRealmsInferiors Book:Nature, Man and Woman Source: Nature, Man and Woman