Ideas Quote by Fernando Pessoa

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love.…

— William Boyd

We never love a person, but only qualities.

— Blaise Pascal

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

— Iyanla Vanzant

You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own…

— Terry Goodkind

Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.

— Hugh Prather

Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only…

— Brené Brown

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

— Judith Viorst

But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender,…

— Peter Kreeft

We never, then, love a person, but only qualities

— Blaise Pascal

To truly love someone, we first have to explore what love is, and that means starting with the person you spend the most time…

— Senora Roy

We can't Love everybody but when you're not Loving someone, you shouldn't be hating them, but should be wondering Why You Shouldn't Love Them.

— Terry Mark

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like…

— Leo Tolstoy