Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.
I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.
You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
Romantic love is just one aspect of love.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Only love is consistent because only love is unconditional.
Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
