Certain Quote by Alexander Theroux

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

— Anonymous

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss…

— Anonymous

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

— George Santayana

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of…

— Samuel Johnson

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

— William James

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

— Kedar Joshi

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

— Anonymous

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as…

— Ben Hecht

If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

— John Macmurray

“The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion…

— Sharon Salzberg

Every lover dips his heart in his own soul, and creates his own nature into his love.

— KM II

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to…

— Sam Keen