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

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One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. – Mortimer Adler

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

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. – Erich Fromm

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Love is a serious mental disease. – Plato

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. – Judy Garland

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Love can do much, but duty more. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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