"To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love."

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Source : "The Elements of True Piety (1677)". "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 189, 2006.

Gottfried Leibniz

#Love Is Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Ask a deeply religious Christian if heâ€™d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists donâ€™t seem so bad lately.”
“God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.”
“The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.”

Source : Carter Heyward (1989). “Speaking of Christ: A Lesbian Feminist Voice”
“The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.”

Source : Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.”

Source : "Crime Novelist Patricia Cornwell on Blood, 'Boundaries' and Her Next Book" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. December 6, 2011.
“Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.”
“I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.”
“The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community”

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