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
The wise are wise only because they love. The fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
-Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom"
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"
Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life.
-Leo Babauta
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
-Helen Keller
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
-Sinclair B. Ferguson
If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love.
-A Spiritual Leader "Annamalai Swami"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
