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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.

— Nathaniel Branden

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.

— Akhil Sharma

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

— Charles Bukowski

Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.

— Marianne Williamson

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

— John Ortberg

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

— Ayn Rand

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

— bell hooks

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

— bell hooks

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

— George Jean Nathan

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

— Marsha Norman

✗Opposing Perspectives

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

— Wayne Dyer