Mortimer Adler Quotes

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

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

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

You can't just turn love on and off.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.