The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.