God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
-Jacques Deval "Jacques Deval"
Quotations
Love
-Jacques Deval "Jacques Deval"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings, which is the way to bring peace to all.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
-Leo Tolstoy
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
-Paulo Coelho
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
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
Love feels no burden, values no labours, would like to do more than it can do, without excusing itself with impossibility, because it believes that it may and can do all things.
-Jesus Christ
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
-William Shakespeare
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
-William Thackeray
