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
Spiritually, the yellow colour is a sign of prosperity; it is the colour of love.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
-C. George Boeree "C. George Boeree"
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.
-Brian P. Cleary
"You Oughta Know By Now"
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
-Emily Giffin
"Something Blue"
Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.
-Barbara Bartlein
"Why Did I Marry You Anyway?: Overcoming the Myths That Hinder a Happy Marriage"
There is no love that is not an echo.
-Theodor W. Adorno
All because of love, when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal.
-Rumi "Jalaluddin Rumi"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
