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
If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
-Markus Zusak
"Getting the Girl"
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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
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"
Love is the highest strength, yet it makes you absolutely weak.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love watches, and sleeping, slumbers not. When fatigued it does not become tired; when pressed it does not work through constraint; when threatened it is not disturbed; but like a lively flame and a burning torch, it mounts upwards, and securely overcomes all opposition.
-Jesus Christ
When you know love then that is the time you forget hate.
-Stephen Richards
Spiritual sex, then, combines how you express your love with the intentions or blessings you bring to your partnership.
-Alexandra Katehakis "Alexandra Katehakis"
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
-Emily Giffin
"Something Blue"
