The wise are wise only because they love. The fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho
Quotations
Love
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
-Rabindranath Tagore
All because of love, when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal.
-Rumi "Jalaluddin Rumi"
When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
-Anonymous
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Mark Twain
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
-Ernest Hemingway
"Men Without Women"
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa
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
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"
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
-Gautama Buddha
