Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
It is very easy to love alone.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
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