shrink4u asked this question on 7/9/2000:

Dear experts, clients, &anyone interested,

I've been asked a number of times about what love is, or the definition of love. I think the following quotes are helpful regarding what famous people have said about the nature of love. This compilation is not original. I found it on the Web and can give you more information if you want or need it.

A few quotes:

(1) I cannot with thee live nor yet without thee. (2) In love the paradox occurs that two things become one and yet remain two. (Erich Fromm) (3) O what a heaven is love! O what a hell! (Thomas Dekker) (4) The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love. (Victor Hugo) (5) The delusion that one woman differs from another. (H L Mencken) (6) God is Love, I dare say. But what a mischievous Devil Love is. (Samuel Butler) (7) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. (La Rochefoucauld) (8) Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (Jesus Christ) (9) All is fair in love and war. (10) If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? (I John 4:20) (11) Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life. (J-P Claris de Florian) (12) Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. (Jean Anouilh) (13) There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. (La Rochefoucauld) (14) A loving heart is the truest wisdom. (Charles Dickens) (15) To be wise and love Exceeds man's might. (William Shakespeare)

What do you think??

Mary

jennifer463 gave this response on 7/10/2000:

Those are really nice. Thanks for sharing them with us!

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