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.
From Mortimer Adler
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Love without conversation is impossible.
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
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