Perfect Love Quotes

“The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.”
― John Welwood, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart

“There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone’s love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.”
― John Welwood, Perfect Love: Imperfect Relationships

“Pure, unconditional love shines through when people put themselves—their own demands and agendas—aside and completely open to one another.”
― John Welwood, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart

“Who is it who is unhappy? The one who finds fault.”
― John Welwood, Perfect Love: Imperfect Relationships

“And while in one sense love conquers all, war nonetheless remains the governing force in world affairs.”
― John Welwood, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart