William P. Young Quotes

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

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.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

Love makes requests, not demands.

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.

The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.

Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

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.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself - to serve. Humans often do this - in touching the infirm and sick, in serving the ones whos minds have left to wander, in relation to the poor, in loving the very old and the very young, or even in caring for the others who has assumed a position of power over them.

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.