Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
Quotations
Love
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.
-Jess C. Scott
"The Intern"
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
-Leonard Matlovich "Epitaph of Leonard. P. Matlovich, 1988"
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
-George Bernard Shaw
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
-Whitney Otto
"How to Make an American Quilt"
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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"
