Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-Erich Fromm
Quotations
Love
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
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
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
-Anaïs Nin
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
-William Shakespeare
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
If we lose all of our wealth and are only left with love then, indeed, we shall never be poor.
-Stephen Richards
Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence.
-Lord Byron
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
