Robert C. Solomon Quotes

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

I believe love is finding the person you're happiest with because he understands and accepts you the way you exactly are.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

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

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Love has more depth as you get older.

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.