Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

True love is when you're cheating on a person but the thought of them still makes your eyes smile!

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

The feelings that we equate with love-feeling sick, feeling insecure, not eating-that's just lust getting in the way. It's your ego saying, 'I want to get laid' and 'I hope she likes me more than I like her.' Love is something that should be there in 20 years' time.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love

Love either finds equality or makes it.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.