The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Love
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
In the Kingdom of Heaven, true love is fulfilled centered on parental love… The family is the original base of true love…
-Sun Myung Moon "Sun Myung Moon"
Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.
-Brian P. Cleary
"You Oughta Know By Now"
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
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
-Jim Morrison
First lose yourself, then only you find Him. The Beloved is not separate from you; just turn your face within.
-Shah Abdul Karim "Shah Abdul Karim"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage
-Ambrose Bierce
Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?
-Rob Brezsny "Rob Brezsny"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
