Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Quotations
Love
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
-Theodor W. Adorno
The blossom of love will make the air fragrant; the river of love will murmur along the valleys; and every bird, beast and child will sing the song of love.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
-Jacques Deval "Jacques Deval"
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
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
-Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is the scent with the lotus born. It is the silent choirs of petals singing winter’s harmony of uniform beauty. Love is the song of the soul, singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets – sun and moonlit.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
