Love cannot tolerate distance and hatred cannot tolerate nearness.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Quotations
Love
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
-George Bernard Shaw
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
-Oscar Wilde "Oscar Wilde"
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
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
-Anaïs Nin
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa
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
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
-Maya Angelou
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
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"
