Logo
Quote by Mortimer Adler
Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what i

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. Thats why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. – Mortimer Adler

Other quotes by Mortimer Adler

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. – Mortimer Adler

Category:
alone
Author
Mortimer Adler
Read Quote

When we ask for love, we dont ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love. – Mortimer Adler

Category:
Love
Author
Mortimer Adler
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Love
category

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something wed all love one another. – Frank Zappa

Category:
Love

A strong man doesnt have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesnt match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world. – Marilyn Monroe

Category:
Love

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. – Dogen

Category:
Love

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever youre wrong, admit it Whenever youre right, shut up. – Ogden Nash

Category:
Love

Random Quotes

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland hes 90 years old now, so hes no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person. – Claude Nicollier

Category:
dad

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancers body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. – Martha Graham

Category:
Nature

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low. – Ovid

Category:
Money

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people. – Thomas S. Monson

Category:
Faith