Love is gravity, because it makes some people feel attracted to others. Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have, and allows humanity not to be extinguished in their blind selfishness. Love unfolds and reveals. For love we live and die.
“Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do, but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.”
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what's real.
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
On this day that we celebrate the fierce love of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I am thinking of my uncle Benedict and my sister Mary. Two people who, as King did, chose love.
Agape — Selfless Love. Agape is the highest level of love to offer. It's given without any expectations of receiving anything in return. Offering Agape is a decision to spread love in any circumstances — including destructive situations.
On giving life meaning
Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.” —ABC interview with Diane Sawyer, June 2010.
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return." "Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary." "I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly." "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - "The only real valuable thing is intuition." - "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age ...
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein.
The emotion of euphoria, and the release of a jumble of chemicals in the brain, including dopamine (pleasure), adrenaline (fight or flight) and norepinephrine (alertness), can make falling in love feel like an addictive rush.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
Einstein himself had been unfaithful to his first wife, Mileva Maric, and eventually left her to marry his mistress, Elsa Einstein, who was also his cousin. After divorcing Mileva and marrying Elsa, he soon resumed having dalliances with numerous other women as well.
1. "Learning never exhausts the mind." 2. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream”
This quote captures the essence of his approach to art. For Van Gogh, the painting was not just about creating a visual representation of something but rather about expressing the emotions and impressions that he experienced in his dreams and imagination.
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.” – at an Oxford University Union speech in 2016.
“We are made of starstuff” – you must have heard this before. It is one of the most famous quotes by Carl Sagan – the face of the original “Cosmos”.
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
The purest form of love is selflessness.
Being enamored of something or with someone goes far beyond liking them, and it's even more flowery than love. Enamored means smitten with, or totally infatuated. Someone enamored with another will perhaps even swoon.
He describes friendship as "the least biological, organic, instinctive, gregarious and necessary...the least natural of loves".