emotional obligation Quotes

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.

Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it is a duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him or her.

I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.

Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

I want to try and pay back the confidence and care that the people at Atletico have always shown me.

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

Love is the only duty that we know.

Honestly, and seriously, I know I have to do a Telugu film. It was my grandmother's dream to see me in a Telugu film before she died. I couldn't fulfil her dream before she passed away, but I don't want to let go of it, either.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

You shall love. Whether you like it or not.

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.

When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.

There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.