"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible | Love | 12 bookmarks

"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. | Love | 49 bookmarks

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore | Love | 39 bookmarks

"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."

Rossetti, Christina | Love | 10 bookmarks

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu | Freedom | 37 bookmarks

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor | Self-love | 23 bookmarks

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

Southey, Robert | Friends and Friendship | 7 bookmarks

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

Thoreau, Henry David | Friends and Friendship | 7 bookmarks

"The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know."

Unknown, Source | Friends and Friendship | 4 bookmarks

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

Washington, George | Friends and Friendship | 4 bookmarks