As a big part of the world will be celebrating love today, it is a wonderful moment to remind…
As a big part of the world will be celebrating love today, it is a wonderful moment to remind ourselves what love means to us. Here is some inspiration from some of the greatest minds ever lived and their views on love.
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 sonnets
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)
And, as always, love life and let it love you back! Happy Valentine’s Day!
