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
Quotations
Love
Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
-William Shakespeare
When you know love then that is the time you forget hate.
-Stephen Richards
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
Love is a better teacher than duty.
-Albert Einstein
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
-Oscar Wilde "Oscar Wilde"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
-Lord Byron
