Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
Quotations
Love
Love to be real love, must be active.
-Barry Moore
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"
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
-Aristotle
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
-William Cowper
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
-Virgil "Virgil"
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!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
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
Nothing I say can explain to you divine love. Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
-Rumi "Jalaluddin Rumi"
