Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
Quotations
Love
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
-Mother Teresa
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
-Oscar Wilde
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
-Helen Keller
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me – with such a one I am in love.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 12:18-19"
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
