One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
-Edwin Arnold
Quotations
Love
The purest love lies where it is least expected- in unattachment.
-Deepak Chopra
Here are the signs of love. When you love someone, you see nothing wrong with them.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give, that takes courage because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
-Madonna
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
-Maya Angelou
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"
And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.
-Paul McCartney
To say I love you one must first be able to say the I.
-Ayn Rand
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
