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.
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
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
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
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love.
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
-Leo Tolstoy
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa
All because of love, when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal.
The lover flies, runs and rejoices; he is free and nothing can restrain him. He gives all for all and has all in all.
-Jesus Christ
