Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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 is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

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

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.