Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.

If it is conditional, it is not love

I don't think anyone can fall in love for ratings.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

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.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

I don't think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don't think that's love - that's infatuation.

That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly.

All I can say is the most important part of being in a relationships that you love the person for who they are.

Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

Love is the opposite of [lust]: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich.

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them.

Any love that is love is right.

You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?