Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
Quotations
Love
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
-Anaïs Nin
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
-Fannie Flagg
"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Love watches, and sleeping, slumbers not. When fatigued it does not become tired; when pressed it does not work through constraint; when threatened it is not disturbed; but like a lively flame and a burning torch, it mounts upwards, and securely overcomes all opposition.
-Jesus Christ
First lose yourself, then only you find Him. The Beloved is not separate from you; just turn your face within.
-Shah Abdul Karim "Shah Abdul Karim"
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Mark Twain
Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life.
-Leo Babauta
There is no love that is not an echo.
-Theodor W. Adorno
