Martin Buber Quotes

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

Open to others as you would like them to open to you.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.