Harry Stack Sullivan Quotes

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

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

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

There is nothing you can control about love.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

I'm in love with lots of different things. I do love love, though. I don't think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don't think that's love - that's infatuation. Someone who makes you feel like that is exciting - it's the one that you imagine when you think of an amazing affair - but that's not actually a stable love.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

Compassion, loyalty, and respect sum up love for me - it's a mix that's very rare to find and even harder to imbibe.

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

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

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

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.