We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love.
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
-Whitney Otto
"How to Make an American Quilt"
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
-Emily Giffin
"Something Blue"
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
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.
Love without sacrifice is like theft.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
-Gautama Buddha
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
-George Eliot