Compatible Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion…

— Anonymous

“Love Liberty Bondage (The Sonnet) Love is liberty, love is bondage, This won't make sense to an egotist. Love is liberty when unselfish, Bondage…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The expression of preferences is the essence of love.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human…

— Aberjhani

“Armed with an ideology of love that advocates togetherness, we are awkward about pursuing autonomy. This is especially true of the individuality of our…

— Esther Perel

“For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.”

— Thomas More

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

— Thomas Merton

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt…

— Baruch Spinoza

“Love is antithetical to human nature. Humans seek their own good. Their own survival. Their own glorification. But love seeks the good of the…

— Christina Daley

What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite…

— Grant Allen