Desire Quote by Esther Perel

Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love

— Shahrukh Khan

“Love,affection, attention and validation - These things cannot be controlled or coerced from another. They are given willingly to a genuine person who can…

— Anonymous

“We are psychologically programmed not only to nurture what we love but to love what we nurture.”

— Sherry Turkle

The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.

— Gary Zukav

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the…

— M. Scott Peck

“It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of…

— Erich Fromm

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security…

— Jonathan Haidt

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

— Bell Hooks

“Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each…

— Andreas Capellanus

The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.

— Robert A. Johnson

Love is the relationship between persons which contributes to the welfare and development of each.

— Ashley Montagu