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1. Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’

2. To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.

3. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

4. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.

5. Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

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