Harold Kushner Quotes

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Love dies only when growth stops.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

Love is where it's at. I'm not speaking of sexual love. I'm talking about where you love each other, want to do the best for each other and just just are happy you found each other.

Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: - it seems rather to enlarge it.

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

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

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

It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.

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.

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.

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

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.