"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity." ― Mortimer Adler Topic(s): Romantic More From Mortimer Adler "When we ask for love, we don’t ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love." "Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange." "It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure." More In Romantic "I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts – not expensive things, just romantic things."― Bai Ling "The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we’re gunning for leadership."― Louis Gerstner "More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren’t relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other."― Walter Isaacson