You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
-Gautama Buddha
Quotations
Love
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
-William Shakespeare
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing more sublime, nothing more expansive, nothing more joyful, nothing more abundant, nothing more pleasing in Heaven or on earth ; because love is born of God, nor can it rest upon created things, but only in God
-Jesus Christ
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
-Anaïs Nin
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
-Benjamin Franklin
Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?
-Rob Brezsny "Rob Brezsny"
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings, which is the way to bring peace to all.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
-William Thackeray
