True Meaning Of Love Quotes:

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Fate, Meaning Life, Life And Destiny

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Great Feelings, Always Happy

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Laozi

topic: Love, Relationship, Positive, Touch Someone, Courage To Change

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Life, Dream, Say I Love You, Need Love

Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite. These are just some of the reasons that prostituting the true meaning of love-either with imagination or another person-is so destructive. It destroys that which is second only to our faith in God-namely, faith in those we love. It shakes the pillars of trust upon which present-or future-love is built, and it takes a long time to rebuild that trust when it is lost.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Heart, Godly, Love Is, Self Indulgence, Meaning Of Love

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

- Martin Buber

source: Martin Buber (2013). “On Judaism”, p.212, Schocken

topic: Neighbor, Meaning Of Love, Command, True Meaning Of Love

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Love, Life, Heart, What Is True Love, True Love Is

I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because...." "Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love You, Say Anything, Going Away, Inspirational True Love, I Love You Because

This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.

- Mother Teresa

source: Mother Teresa (2016). “A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve”, p.26, Image

topic: Hurt, Giving, It Hurts, True Meaning Of Love

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

topic: Love, Life, Romantic, Free Love, Lady Love

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Running, Angel, Most Memorable, Mid Summer Nights Dream

You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Love, Romantic, Wedding, Impress A Girl, Say I Love You

People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Flower, Giving, Posse, Meaning Of Love

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Impress A Girl, Say I Love You

Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

- Andrew Solomon

topic: Grief, People, Suffering, Tripe, True Meaning Of Love

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

- Fred Rogers

source: Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.22, Penguin

topic: Confused, Love Is, People, True Meaning, True Meaning Of Love

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Soulmate Love