Love (n.) is not a spontaneous feeling, not a thing one falls into. Rather, it is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect... a rare combination in capitalist society which commodifies human activity.
Love (n.) is a paradox wherein two beings become one and yet remain two.
Love (n.) is a power which produces love.
Love (n.) is about one's capacity to love rather than about being loved.
Love (n.) is an active penetration of the other person. It is a stilling of the the desire to 'know' insofar as it is an act of fusion, a union in which one knows the other, knows oneself, knows everybody and 'knows' nothing.
Love (n.) is an active power in man... a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others... love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.
Love (n.) is immature when one loves because another is felt to be needed and mature when one feels one needs another because one loves them.
Love (n.) is important in individuation in that it allows one to overcome the sense of isolation and separateness while at the same time permitting one to be oneself, to retain one's integrity.
Love (n.) is, in consumer society, such that an 'attractive' person is tantamount to a package of qualities that are sought after on the personality market depending on the fashion of the time. As such, two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.
Love (n.) is neither a higher power which descends upon man nor a duty which is imposed upon him. It is rather man's own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.
Love (n.) is not a feeling, it is a practice. It is not something natural, but rather requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism.
Love (n.) is not just a strong feeling it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Love (n.) is not primarily a relationship to a specific person... it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.
Love (n.) every human being has the capacity for. And yet, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
Love (n.) is inclusive. Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.
Love (n.) is merely an enlarged egotism (i.e. a symbiotic attachment) when one loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others.
Love (n.) is a thing which, if indeed it is an art, then it requires knowledge and effort.
Love (n.) is a thing it takes only a moment to express to someone but a lifetime to prove it.
Love's (n.) main condition for achievement is the overcoming of one's narcissism... to be able to see people and things separate from the picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.
Love (n.) is non-existent . In other words, love is not a 'thing' or substance to be possessed... rather there exist only the act of loving... it is a productive act which implies bringing something to life and increasing its aliveness.