When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Love
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
The wise are wise only because they love. Fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho "Paulo Coelho"
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings, which is the way to bring peace to all.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
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"
Who loves believes the impossible.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browing
A true 'lover' is the one, in whom his beloved can find not only a lover, but also a
friend, father, guru, brother, son, all of them.
-Deep Trivedi
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
-Theodor W. Adorno
There lives at least one being who can never change - one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness - who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles, who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
-Charles Dickens
