You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Love watches, and sleeping, slumbers not. When fatigued it does not become tired; when pressed it does not work through constraint; when threatened it is not disturbed; but like a lively flame and a burning torch, it mounts upwards, and securely overcomes all opposition.
-Jesus Christ
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
-Paulo Coelho
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
All Mankind love a lover.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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!
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
To say I love you one must first be able to say the I.
-Ayn Rand