You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.
We can only learn to love by loving.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.
I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.