It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Quotations
Love
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
-Lord Byron
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.
-Robert Brault
Love is the highest strength, yet it makes you absolutely weak.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-Helen Keller
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
-George Eliot
