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"
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
Love is that which does not demand a thing from another.
-J. Krishnamurti
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"
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings, which is the way to bring peace to all.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-Oscar Wilde
In life, if you wish to save yourself from going insane, set your anger and love
free... Suppressing them, both get perverted and assume monstrous forms.
-Deep Trivedi
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
-Theodor W. Adorno
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than it’s opposite.
-Nelson Mandela