We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.
Robert Galbraith
Related We all love to see each other do well. We all love to help each other. DEON BUTLER Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. EURIPIDES Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other... BETH KEPHART If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. MAYA ANGELOU May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each o... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If it does shed light on the idea that there's real love involved ... it's great. When two people lo... JAKE GYLLENHAAL And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get o... ELIZABETH GILBERT Love is a disease – ultimately you get sick of each other AMIT ABRAHAM Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other an... BELL HOOKS We have enough athletes that love to compete and push each other. They keep pushing each other until... JOE GIER To inspire love within each other, we realize the fulfillment of our own hearts longing. JILL ANZINGER And she listens better. We also have a very high level of love and respect for each other. BILL SULLIVAN Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other . NICHOLAS SPARKS It was a trip of self-enlightenment, I guess. Me and the guys are closer than ever (we all almost ki... ERIC WHITE On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each ... GERMAINE GREER It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN We gotta love each other again. JAMES BROWN We agreed to love each other madly. JACK KEROUAC We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it i... THICH NHAT HANH We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it i... NHAT HANH How could you love us being together?" he asked me "We are nothing alike and we are not meant for ea... C. JOYBELL C. How wonderful is to have someone cares about us someone to share each step and each accomplishment f... MOHAMMED BAJAMAN People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good [...]. They love each other because it... NATHAN HILL Women have to support each other more. Women get women. We understand each other when we are happy o... ASHLEY GRAHAM Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenme... MALCOLM X We feed each other love; that is how we survive. SCOTTIE SOMERS Love is powerful. You can part two away from each other, but you can't make them stop thinking about... MICKEY LUO Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of ... M. SCOTT PECK That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own se... FERNANDO PESSOA You know when we are blessed when our love strengthens for each other, that’s how you know God has... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love. WARSAN SHIRE As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ... MITCH ALBOM No one was conceived by hate, but love, so love each other knowing this-even if the world is full of... LAURA E. BRUSSEAU We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate ho... DANIEL H. WILSON We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate e... UGO BETTI We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each ot... PETER DE VRIES This is a huge tragedy for the congregation. The best we can do is love each other more. KIRK BROTHERS We must serve each other in love and in humanity. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA They were totally focused, because they wanted this match. It's very sweet to beat a rival like Benn... BERTHA ORTIZ When it comes to believing in the important things in life (like love, hope, justice, peace) we have... JON MORRISON We ought to love, encourage and support each other. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each... NICHOLAS SPARKS Living together as brothers does not mean we don't argue with each other. It does mean we love each ... JONATHAN CHEN Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you unders... QUENTIN CRISP Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you underst... QUENTIN CRISP It's amazing how close we're coming together. The main thing is in the locker room after the game, e... JAY MOORE Real love is when you don’t need to tell each other everything. VIKRANT PARSAI Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand... ELISABETH FOLEY The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in... VICTOR HUGO We love each other, we're brothers. I protect them, they protect me. BILLY BENNETT We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on wit... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense - love as distinct ... C.S. LEWIS But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustai... NICHOLAS SPARKS Love each other or die. MITCH ALBOM We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like eac... PETER DE VRIES Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will ... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love w... JEAN M. AUEL …we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people… LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The problem with our feelings is we don’t understand whether we are in love or we wanted to have s... M.F. MOONZAJER If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each othe... SIMON BIRD Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose PARKER LOUIS SEELY Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with th... MARTHA BECK We'll tell each other that we love each other and I'm always going to be there for him. AMANDA STEPHENSON How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through ou... JOHN IRVING We have always love each other no matter what, we have always been one, and together we will last fo... ANONYMOUS I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love AUGUST STRINDBERG When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M People don't love each other at our age —they please each other, that's all. Later on when you're ... ALBERT CAMUS I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ... LORD BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at... LORD BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ... LORD BYRON A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each... DAVE FINKEL Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. JACK KORNFIELD If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place. MIKE LOVE Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mat... OSHO You can't be hateful because you love yourself. And we're extensions of each other; we'r... CHRISSY METZ The only thing we agree on is our love for each other, but I would rather have that than nothing at ... JAMES YAGER We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerat... HIPPOLYTE TAINE I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other. DAVID CROSBY I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with ea... JANE WIEDLIN People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when... ALBERT CAMUS They hug each other like they haven't seen each other in 20 years. It's a family atmosphere. They lo... JACK JORDAN We can love each other.' I swallow hard to ease the constriction in my throat. 'There are no laws, n... TABITHA SUZUMA May We Love Ourselves. May We Love Each Other. May We Believe that Our Dreams Can Come Tr... MELIA KEETON-DIGBY As you can imagine, we're thrilled. We are very compatible. We share the same interests. We get alon... RICK BOUCHER Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that... LEO BUSCAGLIA Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that... LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Love is breathing each other with all madness SEEMA GUPTA ...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better b... CHRIS CRUTCHER Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ... DAVID LEVITHAN My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about remi... TYLER HOECHLIN Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic... MAGGIE GALLAGHER We don’t have to like each other. We just need to respect each other. IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one s... CHRIS CRUTCHER If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I... MARVIN J. ASHTON It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always... ELIZABETH GILBERT We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what ... AUDRE LORDE
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GALBRAITH The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence ... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who ass... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the ec... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidit... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a conseq... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. ROBERT BENCHLEY In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A... ROBERT ZEMECKIS A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins... ROBERT FROST Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r... ROBERT WINSTON I was always handsome under all the fat. ROBERT ILER In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d... ROBERT HASS Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti... ROBERT HERJAVEC Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio... ROBERT KIYOSAKI It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ... ROBERT POZEN The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th... ROBERT SMITHSON I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ... ROBERT KNEPPER Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per... ROBERT HALF In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit... ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal... ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte... ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso... ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t... ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,... ROBERT KENNEDY