Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.

If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.