That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me – with such a one I am in love.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
-William Shakespeare
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide
"Autumn Leaves"
When there is Love, there is no ego; ego dissolves like the dew drops with the sun.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Let love of the brethren continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
-Oscar Wilde
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
-Ernest Hemingway
"Men Without Women"
I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
