Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
"Star of the Sea"
Quotations
Love
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Mark Twain
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
-Sinclair B. Ferguson
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"
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
-Oscar Wilde
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
-Anaïs Nin
Love is the scent with the lotus born. It is the silent choirs of petals singing winter’s harmony of uniform beauty. Love is the song of the soul, singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets – sun and moonlit.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
