Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
Quotations
Love
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
-Emily Giffin
"Something Blue"
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Anaïs Nin
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage
-Ambrose Bierce
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
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing more sublime, nothing more expansive, nothing more joyful, nothing more abundant, nothing more pleasing in Heaven or on earth ; because love is born of God, nor can it rest upon created things, but only in God
-Jesus Christ
