words of wisdom: About Love

I'm having sort of a writer's block...The only thing that remains for me to do in order to fill-in the "silence" is to quote others.
And since anyway "nothing is said that has not been said before", here are some words by the Wise.*

Today I feel the need to say something, but also feel my words are not adequate to express it so publicly and I definitely lack the wisdom to say anything meaningful on the subject and remain abstract and impartial...So I use the words of others instead.

/*Based on personal experience and by deduction I totally agree with all of them./

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"Love in its essence is spiritual fire. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. "
Erich Fromm

"Love is the beauty of the soul. "
Saint Augustine

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. "
Walter Benjamin

"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. "
Laurence J. Peter

"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. "
Sigmund Freud

"Love is a serious mental disease. "
Plato