Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
Quotations
Love
Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment.
-Mahatma Gandhi
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
-George Bernard Shaw
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.
-Yves Saint Laurent
Our first and last love is – self love.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
-Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom"
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
