Facts Quote by William Boyd

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

— Fernando Pessoa

We never love a person, but only qualities.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Hugh Prather

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

— Judith Viorst

We do not love people because they are beautiful, we find them beautiful because we love them.

— Nishan Panwar

If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than…

— Ching Hai

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.…

— Anonymous

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

— Blaise Pascal

We are not here to love just one person, we are here to love everything in existence.

— Ralph Smart

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 cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes…

— Thomas Merton

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