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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.