Gizem

“Daha anlatsana," dedim.
"Hoşuna mı gitti?"
"Hem de çok. Seninle sekiz yüz elli iki bin kilometre boyunca hiç durmadan laflamak isterdim."
"Benzinimiz yeter mi ki?"
"Yalancıktan doldurursak yeter.”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima

“Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this “central experience” is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love. Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves. There is only one proof for the presence of love: the depth of the relationship, and the aliveness and strength in each person concerned; this is the fruit by which love is recognized.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“For anyone who loves intensely lives not in himself but in the object of his love, and the further he can move out of himself into his love, the happier he is.”
― Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly

“Bir hükümdar öyle bir konumdadır ki, doğruluktan azıcık bel verse bu büyük bir veba gibi yayılarak bütün halkı sarar.”
― Desiderius Erasmus, Deliliğe Övgü