Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
– Mae West
For ’twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart.
‘Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
– Judy Garland, in her poem My Love Is Lost, 1939
Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.
– William P. Young
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/151671-submission-is-not-about-authority-and-it-is-not-obedience
Love is giving someone t h e p o w e r to break your heart
– Sometimes attributed to John Albert Halili
http://alonelovex.livejournal.com/227099.html?thread=357659
http://www.rebellesociety.com/2013/04/12/a-pocket-guide-to-love-21-essentials/
One of the stories of the Buddha has it that when confronted by an angry, rude man who hurled insults at him, Buddha only smiled. His followers asked him why he did not reply, and he reportedly said If someone offers you a gift, and you refuse to accept it, to whom does the gift belong? and the right answer of course is “the person who brought the gift”.
http://www.reddit.com/r/QuotesPorn/comments/1fatsu/if_someone_offers_you_a_gift_and_you_refuse_to/
From Unoffendable by world traveler N. Doherty
http://www.ndoherty.com/unoffendable/