Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
-Emily Giffin
"Something Blue"
Quotations
Love
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
-C. George Boeree "C. George Boeree"
Love feels no burden, values no labours, would like to do more than it can do, without excusing itself with impossibility, because it believes that it may and can do all things.
-Jesus Christ
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
-Fannie Flagg
"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
Love must be one and two at the same time.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
-Søren Kierkegaard
And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.
-Paul McCartney
Love would never leave us alone.
-Bob Marley
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
