“Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.” PassionTermLove IsObedienceSentiments Author:Martyn
“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.” YearsFirstsLongSelfMovingJoyMotherTermLove IsAnimalExistenceDelightRangeSensibilityExpansionAbsorbingSuppressionMother's Love Book:Felix Holt: The Radical Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.” ThinkingPersonsTermLove IsRefusalMomentary Author:Phyllis Rose
“Consider, for example, lust versus love. When we lust after someone or something, we think in terms of what they (or it) can do for us. When we love, however, our thoughts are immersed in what we can give to someone else. Giving makes us feel good, so we do it happily. But when we lust, we only want to take. When someone we love is in pain, we feel pain. When someone whom we lust is in pain, we only think in terms of what that loss or inconvenience means to us.” ThinkingWantGivingFeelsMeanPainTermCan DoLossLove IsExampleLustFeel GoodOur ThoughtsVersusInconvenience Author:David J. Lieberman
“Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.” ThinkingMenTermLove IsChristianityTeachMiddleWorldlyWorldly Wisdom Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.” IfsThinkingTermLove IsBeing TrueTrue Love Is Book:Dying to Know You Source: Dying to Know You
“I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.” PeopleThinkingFeelsSelfTermJusticeLove IsWestMisunderstood Author:Bell Hooks
“My first love is acting, but the reality is that I just don't get too many opportunities to stretch, and grow, and inspire myself as an actor, certainly not in terms of where I make money. Yeah, I can go off and do a play, but the reality is as a profession, directing is exponentially more satisfying.” FirstsI CanPlayRealityActorsOpportunityGrowsTermLove IsActingInspireYeahProfessionMaking MoneySatisfyingFirst Love Author:Matthew Lillard