Naval Ravikant:

Once your health is taken care of, once your material needs are taken care of… You pursue truth, love and beauty.

Love I think is important because people want to be loved, because that helps them get over their mortality. It makes them feel a little safer (monkeys huddling in the dark around the campfire, scared of what’s out there in the woods).

But one thing I’ve realized for myself is that: it’s better to be in love than to be loved.

If somebody loves you too much—like your mom’s coming up and hugging you all the time, or some girl or some guy is obsessed with you—it can get a little clawing, right? It feels like it’s a burden. You almost don’t want that.

But when you feel in love with somebody, that’s when you’re high, that’s when you’re elated. And so, that’s counterintuitive, but… falling in love with someone or something is actually very beneficial to you. It does involve sacrifice. It involves risk. But I think that people who give up on love in their lives, you know, it’s kind of a sad life, right? You get too jaded too fast.

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky


"Courage is a love affair with the unknown."
- Osho

And you don’t have to love people necessarily… You can love the universe, God, animals, what have you… But everybody needs to find something in their life that they love more than themselves—their mission, their family, their children, their religion… Otherwise, it’s going to be a miserable life.

 Source: My Conversation with Naval on Learning Happiness