We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
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
The wise are wise only because they love. Fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho "Paulo Coelho"
All because of love, when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal.
-Rumi "Jalaluddin Rumi"
Love is a great thing, greatest of all goods, because it alone renders light every burden and bears equally all that is unequal.
-Jesus Christ
Our first and last love is – self love.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-Helen Keller
Love flows through a union that lives up to mutual responsibility. Love is not self-seeking, it’s not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong.
-Bible "1 Corinthians 13:5"
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
-Anaïs Nin
