All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness

All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness. All those happy in the world are so because of their desire for happiness for their happiness of others.

Shantideva, Bodhicarayavatara ("Entering into the Bodhisattva Way of Life" - translated by Kate Crosby and Andrew. Skilton, 1996).

Κι όταν πεθάνουμε να μας θάψετε κοντά-κοντά

Κι όταν πεθάνουμε να μας θάψετε κοντά-κοντά
για να μην τρέχουμε μέσα στη νύχτα να συναντηθούμε.
Τάσος Λειβαδίτης, Έρωτας

Und hüte dich auch vor den Anfällen deiner Liebe! Zu schnell streckt der Einsame dem die Hand entgegen, der ihm begegnet.

Und hüte dich auch vor den Anfällen deiner Liebe! Zu schnell streckt der Einsame dem die Hand entgegen, der ihm begegnet.
Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra

And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love! Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him.
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Φυλάξου από τους παροξυσμούς της αγάπης σου, πολύ εύκολα ο μοναχικός απλώνει το χέρι του σε ’κείνον που αγαπά.
Φρίντριχ Νίτσε, Έτσι μίλησε ο Ζαρατούστρα, «Για τον δρόμο του δημιουργού», σ. 106, μετάφραση Άρης Δικταίος

And be on thy guard against the assaults of thy love! Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him!

English: And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love! Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him.
German: Und hüte dich auch vor den Anfällen deiner Liebe! Zu schnell streckt der Einsame dem die Hand entgegen, der ihm begegnet.
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we are in love

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

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
— Dr. Seuss

Take away love and our earth is a tomb

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

-Robert Browning (1812-1889), English poet.

Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love

Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.

-William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright. From "Hamlet," Act 2, Scene 2

Οι άνθρωποι όταν λένε «σ’ αγαπώ», αγαπάνε τον εαυτό τους

Χρειάστηκε να περάσουν πολλά χρόνια για να καταλάβω ότι οι άνθρωποι όταν λένε «σ’ αγαπώ», αγαπάνε τον εαυτό τους και όχι αυτόν στον οποίον απευθύνουν την κουβέντα. Είναι μια ιδιότυπη μορφή Αττικής σύνταξης – εκτός Τριανταφυλλίδη.

Σταύρος Σταυρόπουλος, Τι γίνονται οι λέξεις όταν μεγαλώνουν, εκδ. Ελληνικά Γράμματα, 2008

http://sstavropoulos.blogspot.com/

What is the energy of compassion?

Now we shouldn’t see compassion as some romantic concept, but ask ourselves: “What is the energy of compassion?“ In order to answer that you first have to ask yourself: What is the basic principle of thinking, of the mind? It is black-white, either-or, me or you. For compassion we just have to change one word: me AND you. That is the process of compassion. Whenever there’s “me and you”, there’s a state of stillness. Stillness is not the absence of noise; stillness is the process of you and me at the same time. Not forgetting me, and not forgetting you either, nothing else. And then I ask you: if you look at the world, if you look at your life, is there even one reason for not having the connection “me and you” every day, with everyone? There is absolutely no reason. When you see that, in that compassion automatically you’ll have the chain of feelings, the out-of-body consciousness, modern meditation and the inner state of stillness. That is all you need in this life.
Manuel Schoch, (1946 - 2008)
http://www.tune-in.ch/download/en/talk_in_Hamburg_english.doc