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"
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!
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
-Theodor W. Adorno
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
What is love? Two souls and one flesh; Friendship? Two bodies and one soul.
-Joseph Roux
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than it’s opposite.
-Nelson Mandela
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
-Fannie Flagg
"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
-Lord Byron
There lives at least one being who can never change - one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness - who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles, who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
-Charles Dickens
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
-Aristotle