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"
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
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
A true 'lover' is the one, in whom his beloved can find not only a lover, but also a
friend, father, guru, brother, son, all of them.
-Deep Trivedi
And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.
-Paul McCartney
Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.
-Brian P. Cleary
"You Oughta Know By Now"
Who loves believes the impossible.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browing
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.
...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"
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with the heart and soul there is no such thing as separation!
-Rumi
Love is a better teacher than duty.
-Albert Einstein