Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
-Whitney Otto
"How to Make an American Quilt"
Quotations
Love
Let love of the brethren continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
-Bible "Hebrews 13.1-2"
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
-C. George Boeree "C. George Boeree"
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Mark Twain
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
-Viktor Frankl
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The lover flies, runs and rejoices; he is free and nothing can restrain him. He gives all for all and has all in all.
-Jesus Christ
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa
