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
Quotations
Love
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
-Jacques Deval "Jacques Deval"
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"
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
-Michael Jackson
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
-George Bernard Shaw
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
-George Eliot
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
