Ancient Quote by John Green

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being…

— John Green

We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable…

— Jean Vanier

By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition…

— Maya Angelou

To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate…

— John Gray

“Loving is limbically distinct from in love. Loving is mutuality ; loving is synchronous attunement and modulation. As such, adult love depends critically upon…

— Thomas Lewis

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I…

— Khaled Hosseini

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

— Fran Lebowitz

Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In…

— Adrian Tan

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

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they…

— Merle Shain

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

— Virginia Woolf

Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course,…

— Amy Jenkins