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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Love cannot tolerate distance and hatred cannot tolerate nearness.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Our first and last love is – self love.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.
-Barbara Bartlein
"Why Did I Marry You Anyway?: Overcoming the Myths That Hinder a Happy Marriage"
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 best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
-William Thackeray
Love without sacrifice is like theft.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
