Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
~ M. Scott Peck
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.
~ Marcel Proust
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
~ Margaret Guenther
