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.
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
-Anaïs Nin
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
...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"
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
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
-Mother Teresa
Nothing I say can explain to you divine love. Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
-George Eliot
