Quotes About Love

O amor não é, primacialmente, uma relação para com uma pessoa específica; é uma atitude, uma orientação de caráter, que determina a relação de alguém para com o mundo como um todo, e não para com um "objeto" de amor.

A questo modo due persone si innamorano, certe di aver trovato sul mercato l'oggetto migliore e più conveniente, considerando i limiti dei loro valori di scambio.

A meno che non traggano piacere l'uno dall'altro, perché si stringono come amanti? Senza la Terra, come fiorirebbero il fiore e la pianta? Che cosa produrrebbe l'acqua o il calore del Cielo?

The courage of despair is the opposite of the courage of love, just as the faith in power is the opposite of the faith in life.

In contrasto con l'unione simbiotica, l'amore maturo ha condizione di preservare la propria integrità, la propria individualità.

El amor a la vida es el núcleo, un núcleo muy concreto y real, de todo tipo de amor. Quien crea que ama a los seres humanos sin amar la vida, puede desear apegarse a otra persona, pero no amarla de verdad. Nos imaginamos entonces a una persona que ama todo lo que crece y está vivo, que se siente atraída por el crecimiento infantil, por la maduración. Para semejante persona, incluso lo que no está vivo, como una piedra o el agua, se convierte en algo vivo.

L'amore è un potere attivo dell'uomo; un potere che annulla le pareti che lo separano dai suoi simili, che gli fa superare il senso d'isolamento e di separazione, e tuttavia gli permette di essere se stesso e di conservare la propria integrità.

Sembra un paradosso, ma nell'amore due esseri diventano uno, e tuttavia restano due.

One loves that for which one labors, and one labors for that which one loves.

Invidia, gelosia, ambizione, bramosia, sono passioni; l'amore è un'azione, un potere umano che può essere praticato solo in libertà, e non è la conseguenza si una costrizione.

In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

Yeni insan ve yeni bir toplumun gerçekleÅŸebilmesi için ilk önce, eski motivasyonlar olan kar ve güçlülük tutkular?n?n yerlerini yenilerine; olmaya, diÄŸer insanlar? anlamaya çal??maya ve paylaÅŸmaya b?rakmalar? gerekmektedir. Sonra pazar ekonomisi karakterinin yerine, üretici ve sevme yeteneÄŸine sahip karakterin ve sibernetik din yerine de, radikal-hümaniter bir anlay???n geçmesi ÅŸartt?r.

L'amore è un sentimento attivo, non passivo; è una conquista, non una resa.

The ability to love depends on one's capacity to emerge from narcissism, and from the incestuous fixation to mother and clan; it depends on our capacity to grow, to develop a productive orientation in our relationship toward the world and ourselves. This process of emergence, of birth, of waking up, requires one quality as a necessary condition: faith. The practice of the art of loving requires the practice of faith.

Whether or not the individual is healthy, is primarily not an individual matter, but depends on the structure of his society. A healthy society furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work creatively, to develop his reason and objectivity, to have a sense of self which is based on the experience of his own productive powers.

Kesatuan yang dicapai dalam kerja produktif tidaklah bersifat antarpribadi; kesatuan yang dicapai dalam peleburan orgiastik bersifat sementara; kesatuan yang dicapai oleh kesesuaian hanyalah kesatuan semu. Oleh karena itu, semuanya hanyalah jawaban parsial atas masalah eksistensi. Jawaban yang utuh terletak pada pencapaian penyatuan antarpribadi, peleburan dengan pribadi lain, dalam cinta. (Terjemahan Andri Kristiawan, Penerbit Gramedia)

En el amor se da la paradoja de dos seres que se convierten en uno y, no obstante, siguen siendo dos.

Mother's love is unconditional, it is all-protective, all-enveloping; because it is unconditional it can also not be controlled or acquired. Its presence gives the loved person a sense of bliss; its absence produces a sense of lostness and utter despair. Since mother loves her children because they are her children, and not because they are "good," obedient, or fulfill her wishes and commands, mother's love is based on equality.

This book is a continuation of Escape from Freedom , written over fifteen years ago. In Escape from Freedom I tried to show that the totalitarian movements appealed to a deep-seated craving to escape from the freedom man had achieved in the modern world; that modern man, free from medieval ties, was not free to build a meaningful life based on reason and love, hence sought new security in submission to a leader, race or state.

Wenn ich einen Menschen wahrhaft liebe, so liebe ich alle Menschen, so liebe ich die Welt, so liebe ich das Leben. Wenn ich zu einem anderen sagen kann: Ich liebe dich, muss ich auch sagen können: Ich liebe in dir auch alle anderen, ich liebe durch dich die ganze Welt, ich liebe in dir auch mich selbst.

Luther established a purely patriarchal form of Christianity in Northern Europe that was based on the urban middle class and the secular princes. The essence of this new social character is submission under patriarchal authority, with work as the only way to obtain love and approval. Behind the Christian façade arose a new secret religion, "industrial religion," that is rooted in the character structure of modern society, but is not recognized as "religion.

Creation and destruction, love and hate, are not two instincts which exist independently. They are both answers to the same need for transcendence, and the will to destroy must rise when the will to create cannot be satisfied. However, the satisfaction of the need to create leads to happiness; destructiveness to suffering, most of all, for the destroyer himself.

Love is not primarily caused by a specific object, but a lingering quality in a person which is only actualized by a certain object.

Man—man and woman—can create by planting seeds, by producing material objects, by creating art, by creating ideas, by loving one another. In the act of creation man transcends himself as a creature, raises himself beyond the passivity and accidentalness of his existence into the realm of purposefulness and freedom. In man's need for transcendence lies one of the roots for love, as well as for art, religion and material production.