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
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
-Leo Tolstoy
I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
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
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
-Oscar Wilde
The blossom of love will make the air fragrant; the river of love will murmur along the valleys; and every bird, beast and child will sing the song of love.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
-William Thackeray
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with the heart and soul there is no such thing as separation!
-Rumi
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
-George Eliot
Love is a better teacher than duty.
-Albert Einstein
