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
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
-Rabindranath Tagore
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
-William Ewart Gladstone "William. E. Gladstone"
Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life.
-Leo Babauta
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
First lose yourself, then only you find Him. The Beloved is not separate from you; just turn your face within.
-Shah Abdul Karim "Shah Abdul Karim"
When you get rid of attachment, there will be love.
-J. Krishnamurti
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
All Mankind love a lover.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
