“Laughter between two is sometimes a closer act of love than any other.”

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”

Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist

“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

“Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two people who truly love each other to be not who shall command, but, who shall yield.”

Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading suffragette

“The shortest distance between two points is an intention and this is certainly the case when it comes to becoming more loving to oneself and to others. We must first have the desire and then the intention and commitment to be a source of love — this means that rather than waiting for the world to be more loving, we decide that we will be the first one to reach out and act loving — no matter what!”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

“Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“If there is love enough, then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

“Two are better than one if two act as one. If you believe that two acting as one are better than one, just imagine what an entire team acting as one can do.”

Mike Krzyzewski (1947) American basketball player and coach

“The whole world is bound together as never before; the bonds are sometimes those of hatred rather than love, but they are bonds nevertheless. Frowning or hopeful, every man of leadership in any line of thought or effort must now look beyond the limits of his own country. … For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States