Love Quotes

"We can never have too many people who care about us and love to see us smile. That’s why a great stepmom means so much."

- Keely Chace

"You encouraged like a mom, protected me like a mom, and always loved me like a mom. And that means the world to me."

- Andrew Blackburn

"Because it never hurts to have an extra pair of arms to hug you… an extra heart loving you… there are godmothers."

- Keely Chace

"Mother’s Day is for women who do exactly what you do best: Love."

- Valerie Stark

"Some women just have that extra something: extra room in their heart, extra places at their table, and extra time for the people they love."

- Suzanne Berry

"Mother’s Day is for every woman who holds nothing back… who gives her heart, soul, and energy to those she cares about and still finds a way to love them more every single day."

- Andrew Blackburn

"Mother’s Day is for celebrating the nurturers, the givers, the huggers and helpers, the day-makers and life-changers… and that’s just what you are!"

- Keely Chace

"Absence destroys small passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes tapers and kindles fires."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex."

- Jacques Lacan

"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."

- Sigmund Freud

"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism."

- Sigmund Freud

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

- Sigmund Freud

"Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother."

- Melanie Klein

"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"

- Jacques Lacan

"I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you."

- Jacques Lacan

"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."

- Jacques Lacan

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you."

- Erich Fromm

"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision."

- Erich Fromm

"Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love."

- Erich Fromm

"The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears."

- Erich Fromm

"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."

- Erich Fromm

"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty."

- Erich Fromm

"Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”"

- Erich Fromm

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."

- Erich Fromm

"Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship."

- Erich Fromm

"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."

- Erich Fromm

"The mature response to the problem of existence is love."

- Erich Fromm

"Love endures delay"

"Love is everything"