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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage
-Ambrose Bierce
And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.
-Paul McCartney
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Love cannot tolerate distance and hatred cannot tolerate nearness.
-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
Love would never leave us alone.
-Bob Marley
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
