It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
-William Thackeray
Quotations
Love
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
-Leo Tolstoy
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
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
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
-Jacques Deval "Jacques Deval"
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
-Helen Keller
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
-Jim Morrison
