و تدلنا التجربة أن الحب ليس أن ينظر بعضنا إلى بعض ، وإنما أن ننظر سوياً في اتجاه واحد ..

To love is not to look at one another, it is to look, together, in the same direction.

Die Erfahrung lehrt uns, daß Liebe nicht darin besteht, daß man einander ansieht, sondern daß man gemeinsam in gleicher Richtung blickt.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other (one perfect sunrise gazing at another!) but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.

Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.

لا أعني أن الحب يحدث حتما من أول نظرة، و لكن النظرة الأولى تكفي لاكتشاف من تربطهم بنا صلة روحية عسية أن تصير الحب نفسه! أليس يقولون أن الأرواح تتخاطب بغير إحساس البتة؟! فنظرة واحدة تبلغ بالروح فوق ما تريد..أما الحب الذي تلده الأيام و تنبهه المعاشرة فمرجعه على الغالب العادة أو المنفعة، أو غيرهما من القيم التي لا تدرك إلا بالروية و الإمهال

الحب هو المسافة التي نقطعها خلال وقت يقاس بوحدة القلب.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.

Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other. It is when we are doing things together that friendship springs up – painting, sailing ships, praying, philosophizing, fighting shoulder to shoulder. Friends look in the same direction. Lovers look at each other — that is, in opposite directions. To transfer bodily all that belongs to one relationship into the other is blundering.