The importance of love

    
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The importance of love


J. W. Goethe
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
Only the soul that loves is happy.J. W. Goethe, 1749-1831, German writer, Egmont

CorinthiansEven if I speak all the languages of men and of angels, if I don't have love, life became sounding brass, and a clanging cymbal.Bible, Corinthians  

MaturamaWe human beings are animals dependant on love.Humberto Maturama, in E. Morin Method V

E. MorinThe poetry of life, with the love it contains and that contains it, is the only response to death.
Love makes us tolerate destiny, and makes us love life.
Love is the great poetry in the prosaic modern world.E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V

Stanislas-Xavier TouchetThe two wings of our souls, immune to any gust of wind, are true love and faith.Attributed to Stanislas-Xavier Touchet, 1848-1926, French religious

Saint AugustinI loved not yet, yet I loved to love… I sought what I might love, loving to love.
Saint Augustin, 354-430, Theologian, Confessions
 

Irving BerlinThere may be trouble ahead,

But while there’s moonlight and music and love and romance,

Let’s face the music and dance.

Irving Berlin, 1888-1989, American songwriter, Follow the Fleet   

William CongreveSay what you will, ‘tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

William Congreve, 1670-1729, English writer, The way of the world

Bertrand RusselTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russel, 1872-1970, English philosopher and mathematician,Marriage and Morals 

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Bertrand Russel, 1872-1970, English philosopher and mathematician,Mysticism and Logic