The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Love
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
-William Thackeray
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
-Edwin Arnold
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"
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
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing more sublime, nothing more expansive, nothing more joyful, nothing more abundant, nothing more pleasing in Heaven or on earth ; because love is born of God, nor can it rest upon created things, but only in God
-Jesus Christ
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
-George Bernard Shaw
All because of love, when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal.
-Rumi "Jalaluddin Rumi"
Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?
-Rob Brezsny "Rob Brezsny"
