True Meaning Of Love Quotes

• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Valentines Day, Fate

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.32, Macmillan

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite. These are just some of the reasons that prostituting the true meaning of love-either with imagination or another person-is so destructive. It destroys that which is second only to our faith in God-namely, faith in those we love. It shakes the pillars of trust upon which present-or future-love is built, and it takes a long time to rebuild that trust when it is lost.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Heart, Godly, Love Is

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• The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

  Martin Buber

  Neighbor, Meaning Of Love, Command

  Martin Buber (2013). “On Judaism”, p.212, Schocken

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• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

  Honore de Balzac

  True Love, Love Is, What Is Love

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• One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 25, 2014

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• This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Giving, It Hurts

  Mother Teresa (2016). “A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve”, p.26, Image

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  Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Flower, People

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 15, 2016

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• I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Disappointment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

  Andrew Solomon

  Grief, People, Suffering

  Andrew Solomon (2013). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.701, Simon and Schuster

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• We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

  Fred Rogers

  Confused, Love Is, People

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.22, Penguin

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  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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