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
Quotations
Love
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
-Jacques Deval "Jacques Deval"
Love to be real love, must be active.
-Barry Moore
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
In the Kingdom of Heaven, true love is fulfilled centered on parental love… The family is the original base of true love…
-Sun Myung Moon "Sun Myung Moon"
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-Helen Keller
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
-Viktor Frankl
The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahamsa"
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
-Theodor W. Adorno
