Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Quotations
Love
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The wise are wise only because they love. The fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
-Mother Teresa
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
Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
-Leonard Matlovich "Epitaph of Leonard. P. Matlovich, 1988"
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"
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
-Mother Teresa
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
-Aristotle
