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"
Quotations
Love
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
-William Shakespeare
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
-Leonard Matlovich "Epitaph of Leonard. P. Matlovich, 1988"
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
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 more about being the right person than finding the right person.
-Barbara Bartlein
"Why Did I Marry You Anyway?: Overcoming the Myths That Hinder a Happy Marriage"
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"
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
-George Eliot
The wise are wise only because they love. Fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho "Paulo Coelho"
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa
