It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
Quotations
Love
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
-Khalil Gibran
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give, that takes courage because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
-Madonna
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
-Theodor W. Adorno
The lover flies, runs and rejoices; he is free and nothing can restrain him. He gives all for all and has all in all.
-Jesus Christ
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"
Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
Love without sacrifice is like theft.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Where there is love there is life.
-Mahatma Gandhi
