Blaise Pascal
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. T. S. Eliot
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin
That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love.
Emily Dickinson
2 comments:
Love is the puzzle which we try to solve for the rest of our life. We cannot expect it or even imagine where it is leading us, so maybe we should just enjoy the ride
No Arabic opinion about love among your choices!
Again i totally agree with you :)
It Is a puzzle that we try to solve for the rest of our life. It can't be expected or predicted.
But maybe we'd better not bother try solving it for a long time and just enjoy the ride as you said. It is the light that it brings into our souls that matters, searching the source of this light won't help much.
For the Arabic quotes exclamation , usually when it comes to quotes , unlike you sir :) i don't have time to dig my books and come up with the extracts i like, so i search over the net for quotes about a keyword. And always the quotes are for western thinkers. The only arab i find is Gobran Khalil Gobran, and as much as i like his words in arabic, his words in english, probably translated, are not that much good for me !
Another obstacle is that searching for anything that has to do with arabic literature is like hell to me. I can't find anything, i mean i can read whole english novels online and i can't even find a proper mini biography about someone like "Tawfiq el Hakim " in arabic , maybe in french or english , but not in arabic. I stumble in pages an pages about singers and dancers even ,i mean the real names and birthdays of actors and dancers are a Big Issue for us the arabs, but not a single word about a writer i really like Yehia Haqy !!!! can u bleive it !!!
This thing kills me, but maybe i can help by adding extrcts of what i like of the arabic literature. I'll work on this :) to light a candle ...
Thank you for bringing it up.
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