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"
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!
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
-Helen Keller
Love feels no burden, values no labours, would like to do more than it can do, without excusing itself with impossibility, because it believes that it may and can do all things.
-Jesus Christ
You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.
-Robert Brault
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
Spiritual sex, then, combines how you express your love with the intentions or blessings you bring to your partnership.
Love is that which does not demand a thing from another.
-J. Krishnamurti
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
-Oscar Wilde
What is love? Two souls and one flesh; Friendship? Two bodies and one soul.
-Joseph Roux