To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Love
Freely we serve, because freely we love.
-John Milton "John Milton"
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
Love is a better teacher than duty.
-Albert Einstein
Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-Erich Fromm
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"
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
-Sarah Williams
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
-William Thackeray
And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.
-Paul McCartney
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
