Joseph Joubert Quotes

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

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

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

Loved people are loving people.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

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

You have to give love to get love.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

The love received is the love that is saved.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

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

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I just want to love and be loved.

Love dies only when growth stops.

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.

Love is the substance of human survival.

There are many doors to the heart.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.