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Love is a far ranging word

• Love: Strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties .  Warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion.  Unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another.  Merriam Webster
• Love: An intense feeling of deep affection.  A strong feeling of affection and sexual attraction for someone.  A great interest and pleasure in something.  Oxford Dictionary
• Love: A profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. A feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.  Sexual passion or desire.  Dictionary.com
• Unconditional love,  Romantic love,  Divine love,  Self-love,  Acceptance,  Compassion,  Kindness,  Intimacy,  Sexuality,  Oneness

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Love is a state of being …

• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.  Eckhart Tolle
• True love has no object. It is a state of being.  John McAfee
• Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.  David R. Hawkins
• Love is not something you think about, it’s a state in which you dwell. Christopher Moore
• Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It’s a matter of what’s happening in your heart.  Ken Keyes
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… a state of awareness …

• The key to the universe is Love, together, in a partnership with Awareness. Robert Cosmar
• Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others. David R. Hawkins
• Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being.  This is how love ripens us — by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth.   John Welwood
• Awareness,  Attention

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… an expanded state of consciousness

• The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. Napoleon Bonaparte
• The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde
• Love is the omnipresent force of the universe; it unifies energy and consciousness. John Pierrakos
• Love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. Eckhart Tolle
• Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. Eckhart Tolle
• The best way to maintain a higher vibration is to make every thought and word you use or listen to as loving and nurturing as possible. Sonia Choquette
• I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Love is our realisation of oneness; our recognition of ourself in another

• Love is the realisation we are one. It is meeting another as yourself. Eckhart Tolle
• When I walk into a room, I know that everyone in it loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet. Byron Katie
• Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith
• When you know each life form as yourself, that is called love. When you know this then you are constantly in a state of love, the love that knows the other as yourself. Eckhart Tolle
• When we practice giving love for no reason, we are saying ‘YES’ to the Universe that we trust and believe in our shared oneness. Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.   Leo Buscaglia
• In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love. Eckhart Tolle
• The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. Nisargadatta  Maharaj
• True communication is communion―the realization of oneness, which is love. Eckhart Tolle
• Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. Rabindranath Tagore
• Oneness,  Connectedness,  Connection

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Love makes life worthwhile …

• Love doesn’t make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Elizabeth Browning
• One word frees us from all of the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles
• Where there is love there is life. Gandhi
• Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.
• There is no hope for us in this painful, mysterious world save in giving ourselves to love. Byron Caldwell Smith
• Life is a song. Love is the music.
• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. H. Lawrence
• Love means nothing in tennis, but it’s everything in life.
• … Its eternal goal is life…. No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence. Smiley Blanton

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… and without it, life is greatly impoverished

• For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive. Smiley Blanton
• A life filled with love must have some thorns; but a life empty of love will have no roses.
• For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan
• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran
• To live without loving is not really to live. Moliere
• Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning
• Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. Robert Brault
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To love is our very purpose on earth

• Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us. Marianne Williamson
• If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• The most important thing in this world is to learn to give out love, and let it come in. Morrie Schwartz
• The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
• I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies. Ram Dass
• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli
• A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut
• There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. Audrey Niffenegger
• I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa
• Love is the law of life. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm
• Love is why I came here in the first place. John Denver
• Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way. Bernie Siegel
• In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another. Daphne Rose Kingman
• The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. Paulo Coelho
• To be a lover of life is to be a heroic lover on a sacred quest to become an embodiment of love. Tim Freke
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Life is a classroom for learning and practicing love

• A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. Leo Buscaglia
• There is nothing right or wrong about the situations we find ourselves in. It is all teaching us to find deeper and deeper and deeper love inside.  John Saward
• The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. Henry Drummond
• The Buddha’s teachings on love are clear. It is possible to live twenty- four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. Thich Nhat Hanh
• What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences – and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.  Oprah Winfrey
• The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Morrie Schwartz
• The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return. Natalie Cole
• Love is a lesson worth learning. Oprah Winfrey
• Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter. Oprah Winfrey
• Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live.
• Life is a university,  Learning

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Love is the core component of our spiritual journey

• In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. Paulo Coelho
• The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Marianne Williamson
• The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
• The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love. Paulo Coelho
• To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde
• Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated. David Deida
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To be loved is the deepest human need

• The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. Mignon McLaughlin
• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa
• Perhaps everything terrible is in its being something that needs our love. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Love is the truest wealth

• Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde
• Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.
• Money is good, love is wealth. Doug Horton
• The wealth of man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. Thomas Carlyle
• Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. Og Mandingo
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Love is powerful beyond measure …

• Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be. Charles R. Swindoll
• The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. Peace Pilgrim
• Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses. Lao Tzu
• How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love. Paulo Coelho
• Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. Og Mandino
• In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you. Rajneesh
• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Arthur Baldwin
• Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving
• A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
• Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world. Gary Zukav
• Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. Viktor Frankl
• A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison. Rumi
• Love burns across the infinitude. Terri Guillemets
• Love is metaphysical gravity. Buckminster Fuller
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… the most powerful energy of all

• I am Love. Life is about making love. To everything. Love is the point of it all. Love is the energy of which I am made. It is the energy that holds me together. Love is my experience of Self when I see everyone as part of me. It is unity expressed. We are all part of God. I love you comes to mean “the god in me sees the god in you.” Neale Donald Walsch
• Least effort is expended when my motivations are motivated by love, because nature is held together by love. When my actions are motivated by love, my energy multiplies and accumulates. Attention to my ego (when I seek power and control over others or seek approval from others) consumes the greatest amount of energy. When my internal reference point is my spirit, when I am immune from criticism and unafraid of any challenge, I harness the power of love. Deepak Chopra
• Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. Vincent van Gogh
• Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder
• Love is energy of life. Robert Browning
• Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. Smiley Blanton
• Love is the most powerful, and still the most unknown, energy of the world. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Love is the omnipresent force of the universe; it unifies energy and consciousness. John Pierrakos
• Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. Sai Baba
• Love permeates all and energizes life. Toba Beta
• The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe. The energy, the emotion that we call love. When you know this, everything changes. Neale Donald Walsch
• When your actions are motivated by love, your energy multiplies and accumulates — and the surplus energy you gather and enjoy can be channeled to create anything that you want, including unlimited wealth. Deepak Chopra
• Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. Henry David Thoreau

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Love is self-sustaining and bottomless

• There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
• When you begin to touch your heart, or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. Pema Chodron
• When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. Oprah Winfrey
• The more love we give, the greater our capacity to do so. David R. Hawkins
• Only love can be divided endlessly and still not be diminished. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Love isn’t like a reservoir, you’ll never drain it dry. It’s more like a natural spring, the longer and further it flows, the stronger and deeper and the clearer it becomes.
• For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is it’s flow. Antoine de Saint- Exupery
• Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
• Of all the fires, love is the only inexhaustible one. Pablo Neruda
• The more you love, the more love you have to give. It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite.  Christina Westover
• Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Khalil Gibran
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Love connects all

• Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it. Emily H. Sell
• Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It’s in every one of us. It’s what God is. Wayne Dyer
• Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. Julia Cameron
• Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe. Emily Hilburn Sell
• Connectedness,  Connection

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Love is spiritual fire that ignites the soul

• Love is the force that ignites the spirit. Phil Jackson
• Love in its essence is spiritual fire. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls. Aberjhani
• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul. John Welwood
• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.  Zora Neale Hurston
• Love touches the soul and awakens a desire so powerful that even the most vigilant heart is lured by its radiance. Jamie Lynn Morris
• We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. Robert Brault
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Love is a miracle

• Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather
• Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. Marianne Williamson
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Love heals

• Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. Gary Zukav
• Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. Buddha
• Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. Sai Baba
• What happens when people open their hearts?… They get better. Haruki Murakami
• Perhaps everything terrible is in its being something that needs our love. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Love one another: you’ll be happy and healthy. It’s as simple and difficult as that. Michael Leunig
• Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise L. Hay
• The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
• One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles
• Love with the Heart of Heaven. Everything that you do with Love will heal you. Joseph Michael Levry
• You cannot save people; you can only love them.  Anaïs Nin
• A heart that loves is always young. Greek Proverb
• Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Karl Menninger
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Love transforms

• Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. Martin Luther King, Jr
• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you could wrap every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed. Rhonda Byrne
• Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world. Ericka Huggins
• Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us, flowers. The world changes when we change, the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world. Marianne Williamson
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Love opens our understanding – and vice versa

• When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries. Paulo Coelho
• Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul. John O’Donohue
• We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. Anna Jameson
• If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. Thich Nhat Hahn
• True love is born from understanding. Gautama Buddha
• And without understanding, could each properly love the other? Anita Brookner
• Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. George Orwell
• Love is the key to understanding all mysteries. Paulo Coelho
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Love reveals

• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. George Washington Carver
• Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
• Ultimately, it is only love that can give us insight into what is real and what is important. And so, a radical act of love makes sense—love for life and for the emergence of one’s truest self. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person, we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves. John Gray

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Love brings happiness

• Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. A Course In Miracles
• Happiness is love, nothing else. Herman Hesse
• In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we cannot realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations. Byron Caldwell Smith
• Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. Sri Chinmoy
• Love and happiness go hand in hand. David Kam
• Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso
• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.  Michael Leunig
• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
• People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another. Mother Teresa
• The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde
• The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. Oprah Winfrey
• The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes. Leo Tolstoy
• The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo
• There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand
• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. The Dalai Lama
• You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love. Just love everything that Life has to offer today. And of course, love every person. Then watch the whole experience change. Neale Donald Walsch
• Your intention to love, not matter what, is the absolute key to happiness. Robert Holden
• A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness. Robert Brault
• To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. Robert Brault
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Love brings joy

• A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. Mother Teresa
• True love always brings joy to our self and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. Nicholas Sparks
• Joy is an attitude; it is the presence of love – for self and others. Sanaya Roman
• Love is the unifier, the motivator and the source of joy for every being. Sai Baba
• There is no real and true Joy if that Joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without Joy. Saraydarian
• Love makes you empty — empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy. Osho
• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Love strengthens

• It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Thomas Mann
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
• It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. Robert Brault
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Love provides comfort and banishes loneliness

• It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. John Bulwer
• Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. M. Barrie
• Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. F. Calverton
• No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness. Robert Brault
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Love leads us to ourselves

• As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming. Leo Buscaglia
• To love a person means to do everything within your power to help that person become the best version of herself, and never to do anything that would hinder her from achieving this great essential purpose. Matthew Kelly

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True love is unconditional

• The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It’s the only thing, ultimately, that really matters. Joy Gardner
• When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Love is embracing everything and avoiding nothing. Edwin Carl Smith
• Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like. Ajahn Brah
• It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul. Wayne Dyer
• Love knows no answer for it does not question. Silent Lotus
• To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. Elizabeth Gilbert
• I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thomas Moore
• Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXVI”
• The love of which the mystics speak is a very different form of love. It is an unconditional love, a love that does not depend on another’s attributes or actions. It is not based on our wants, needs, hopes, fears, or any other manifestation of the ego’s thought system. Unconditional love is the love that springs forth when the mind has fallen silent, and for once we are free from fear, evaluation and judgment.  Peter Russell
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Love is accepting someone as they are …

• Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance Understanding  3. Appreciation.  Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?  So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.  Vera Nazarian
• Love is unconditional acceptance and looking for the good. Denis Waitley
• Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun, like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.  Fred Rogers
• A woman wants to be cherished – to be loved and accepted for who she is.  John Gray
• Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood. Karen Casey
• Unconditional love is not romantic love. It is the acceptance of others as they are without judgment or expectations. It is total acceptance of others without attempting to change them, except by our own positive example. Dick Sutphen
• Everyone has that one thing that’s totally illogical, which if you really want to love that person, you’ve just got to accept. Terri Guillemets
• It’s a life-long battle, perhaps worth fighting, to try to love someone through the chinks in their armor. Robert Brault
• The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over. Eckhart Tolle
• Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. Miguel Ruiz
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… allowing someone to be completely themselves

• When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them. Neale Donald Walsch
• We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Dr S Dhillon
• Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.  Julins Gordon
• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.  Thomas Merton
• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

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Love is willing to let go

• To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much. Diana Wynne Jones
• If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don’t, their love was never yours to begin with.
• If you love something – set it free. If it comes back to you – it is yours. If it does not – it was never meant to be.
• My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best…my very best, I set you free. Rachel Yamagata
• You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. Thich Nhat Hanh
• If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were. Richard Bach
• Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. Melissa Marr
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Love is free

• Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. Thich Nhat Hanh
• There’s nothing more freeing than the shackles of love. Terri Guillemets
• True love is a delightful slavery. James Lendall Basford
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Love is giving up control

• Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. Rob Bell
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Love is compassionate …

• Compassion involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it’s like to be in someone else’s predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. Richard Carlson
• Understanding how compassion is a form of love helps us recognize what a jewel it truly is. When it arises from inner freedom it is then connected to other beautiful capacities of our hearts. It can appear together with well- being, calm, clarity, and peace. Gil Fronsdal
• I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies. Ram Dass
• It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all. The Dalai Lama
• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. The Dalai Lama
• It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. Steve Maraboli
• If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow. Elisabeth Kuebler- Ross
• When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion. Stephen Levine
• Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness. The Dalai Lama
• To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. Stephen Batchelor
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… and full of empathy

• Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well- being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of yourself. Jonathan Franzen
• Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself. Thomas More
• But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains. A. Salvatore
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Love listens

• The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
• All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen.  They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.  Paul Tillich
• How can we communicate love? I think three things are involved. We must reach out to a person, make contact. We must listen with the heart, be sensitive to the other’s needs. We must respond in a language that the person can understand. Many of us do all the talking. We must learn to listen and to keep on listening. Princess Pale Moon
• Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives him – or herself to another’s word, making oneself accessible and vulnerable to that word. William Stringfellow
• Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I’m concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying ‘I love you’ is being a receptive listener. Fred Rogers
• Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. Robert Brault
• Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. David Byrne
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Love is kind

• The essence of love is kindness. Robert Louis Stevenson
• A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert
• Kindness is just love with its workboots on.
• Kindness is the insignia of a loving heart.
• Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness, kindness is love, perhaps greater than love …. kindness is goodwill, kindness says “I want you to be happy.” Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God. Randolph Ray
• Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. S. Lewis
• The emotion of love comes and goes like waves. Enduring love of the awakened heart is not a feeling but an action. Combining love and will, you walk the same path as the saints by showing loving- kindness to all other beings whether or not you feel like it. Dan Millman
• Giving love doesn’t mean contrived sentimentality or flattery. It is a natural attitude and demeanour of good will, kindliness, support, caring, and benevolence. It is also a willingness to do what you can to be helpful, and make things a little better for someone. John Marks Templeton
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Love cares

• The right mixture of caring and not caring–I suppose that’s what love is. James Hilton
• If you love life, you will care for life. If you love yourself, you will care for yourself.  If you love your family, you will care for your family.  If you love humanity, you will care for humanity.  If you love the world, you will care for the world.  If you love God, you will care for God.  So, everywhere you look, you will find love as the key to caring. And life without caring is tantamount to death. The reverse is equally true: If you do not love life, you will not care for life.  If you do not love yourself, you will not care of yourself.  Robert Muller
• Love is my decision to make your problem my problem. Robert Schuller
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Love is beautiful and sacred

• Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life. Mabel Iam
• Love is the beauty of the soul. St Augustine
• There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.  Don Juan De Marco
• And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Bible
• Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective – life. Ogwo David Emenike
• Love is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. Henry van Dyke
• Although love may be planted in the lowest places, its foliage and fruits may reach to the skies. James Lendall Basford
• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire
• Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Gustave Flaubert
• Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. Swedish Proverb
• Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defence. Mark Overby
• Love is not consolation. It is light. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Love is the poetry of the senses. Honoré de Balzac
• Pure love is as gentle as the moon and as constant as the sun. James Lendall Basford
• Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls. Terri Guillemets
• Love is patient and kind, Love is not jealous, conceited, proud or boastful, it is not arrogant, selfish, irritable or rude. Love does not keep a record of wrongs. Love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth, Love never gives up, and its faith, hope and patience never fail. Love is eternal. 1- Corinthians 13:4
• Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Nicholas Sparks
• This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience – it looks for a way of being constructive. Love is not possessive. Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas. Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. Love is not touchy. Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails. Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen. Elisabeth Elliot
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Love is open

• I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with our selves, others, and life itself. Openness – the heart’s pure, unconditional yes – is love’s essence. And warmth is love’s basic expression, arising as a natural extension of this yes – the desire to reach out and touch, connect with, and nourish what we love.  John Welwood
• Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before. Mignon McLaughlin
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Love does not expect anything in return

• Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving any return for it. Lester Levensen
• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. Wayne Dyer
• How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. Eckhart Tolle
• You know it’s love when all you want is for that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. Julia Roberts
• Love is always bestowed as a gift, freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved, we love to love. Leo Buscaglia
• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton
• 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.  Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
• Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out. Nick Richardson
• True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “you owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. Hafez of Shiraz
• Love spiritually, not strategically. F. Hodge
• Love does not obey our expectations; it obeys our intentions. Lloyd Strom
• Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi
• Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I’d like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you. You can’t disappoint me. Mary Haskell
• To give and not expect return that is what lies at the heart of love. Oscar Wilde
• Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa
• Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. Leo Buscaglia
• Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything. Katharine Hepburn
• When people are not loyal or loving toward us, we enliven our potential for unconditional love. A yes frees us from the suffering caused by our need to hurt or reject those who have disappointed us. David Richo
• Sometimes when we think we love someone, we’re actually loving what we think the other person may be able to give us. This can be an aspect of “conditional” love. Love at its highest level demands nothing in return. It loves for the sake of loving. John Marks Templeton
• Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh
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True love is an absence of clinging and dependency

• People need each other and think it is love. There’s no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves. Lester Levensen
• Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. Anthony de Mello
• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open…and it stays. Clutch it…and it darts away. Dorothy Parker
• How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. Eckhart Tolle
• For the greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you. To need you for nothing. Neale Donald Walsch
• If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. Thich Nhat Hanh
• We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. Thich Nhat Hanh
• You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. Thich Nhat Hanh
• If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were. Richard Bach
• Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency. Brian L. Weiss
• To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. Kathleen Tierney Andrus
• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Max De Pree
• Let there be spaces in your togetherness.  Kahlil Gibran
• Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.  Bell Hooks

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Love is free of judgement

• Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everthing, you will be happiest. Sri Chinmoy
• I think that whenever soul is present, it’s because what you’re doing, whom you’re with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment. Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Love is unconditional acceptance and looking for the good. Denis Waitley
• If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa
• Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Marianne Williamson
• Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. Charles Du Bos
• Love is saying, “I feel differently” instead of “you’re wrong.”
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Love is wanting the other person to be happy

• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein
• I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. Nicholas Sparks
• Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. C. S. Lewis
• True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well- being of one’s companion. Gordon B. Hinckley
• When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love. Lana Del Rey
• Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness. The Dalai Lama

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Love is divinely inspired

• To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fydor Dostoevsky
• Love is our highest word and the synonym for God. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If it isn’t about love, it isn’t about God. Susan Jeffers
• To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo
• There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder. Charles Morgan
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Love is what we are

• Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it. Byron Katie
• In our imaginations, we believe that love is apart from us. Actually, there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself. Deepak Chopra
• We are love and love is the light within that guides our way. Micheal Teal
• The common expression is ‘I love you.’ But instead of ‘I love you,’ it would be better to say, ‘I am love — I am the embodiment of pure love.’ Remove the I and you, and you will find that there is only love. Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi
• Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• Love is who we are without our stories.  Byron Katie
• You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine. Thomas Traherne
• You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from. Werner Erhard

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Love is within us

• Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• Don’t seek love externally, it’s fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken the love that already exists within; it will encompass everyone and everything in your life; it will permeate your very being. Danielle Pierre
• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Igor Stravinsky
• Don’t seek love externally, it’s fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken the love that already exists within; it will encompass everyone and everything in your life; it will permeate your very being. Danielle Pierre
• Like the peace we seek, this unconditional love is always there at our core. It is not something we have to create; it is part of our inner essence. Pure consciousness–consciousness not conditioned by the needs and concerns of an individual self–is pure love. I, in my true essence, am love. Peter Russell

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Love is the true nature of the soul

• Love is the soul’s exquisite vibrations. Love is the soul at song. Edwin Leibfreed
• The choice that you, as a soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose, that all of us as humans have been given…to love unconditionally? John Morton
• Love is the beauty of the soul. St Augustine
• The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self- control. Against such things there is no law. Bible
• Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. Jose Ortega Gasset
• Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish. Deepak Chopra
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Love is an action; a verb

• There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Pierre Reverdy
• The emotion of love comes and goes like waves. Enduring love of the awakened heart is not a feeling but an action. Combining love and will, you walk the same path as the saints by showing loving- kindness to all other beings whether or not you feel like it. Dan Millman
• Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving. Erich Fromm
• If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Leo Buscaglia
• It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is “What would love do now?”  Neale Donald Walsch
• Love – THE FEELING – is a fruit of love, the verb. Stephen Covey
• It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it. Betty Eadie
• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
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Put love into your doing

• In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all. Mahatma Gandhi
• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky
• Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing. Leo Babauta
• It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing. Mother Theresa
• We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
• You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue. Walter Russell
• Do everything in love. It’s the only way to find true peace and fulfilment. Tim Hansel
• Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. Amrit Desai
• Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Stephen Covey
• If there is a day to act on the Love in your soul it is today, it is this moment. Mike Dolan
• In this life, we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
• Put love into your work
• All work is empty save when there is love. And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God. Khalil Gibran
• Work without love is slavery. Mother Teresa
• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.  For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half people’s hunger. Khalil Gibran
• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Kahlil Gibran
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Practice love

• You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master. Miguel Ruiz
• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi
• Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. Nora Roberts
• If you love someone, hurry up and show it. Rosie Zadra
• Keep love in your heart. A life without it 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
• Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don’t rush encounters with co- workers, family and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
• Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. Amrit Desai
• Love is never a waste of time. Elizabeth Florence Stucley
• You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Mary Oliver
• You have to talk about what you love, to bring what you love to you. Rhonda Byrne
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Experience love

• Certain things in life simply have to be experienced and never explained. Love is such a thing. Paulo Coelho
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Be a source of love

• Fill your life with love. Rather than waiting for other people to provide the love we desire, we must be a vision and a source of love. The starting point or foundation of a life filled with love is the desire and commitment to be a source of love. Richard Carlson
• Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. Malagasy Proverb
• Seek something in every segment of every day that brings forth within you the feeling of love. Look for reasons to love. Abraham-Hicks
• Love one another and help others to rise to higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. Sathya Sai Baba
• We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present. Marianne Williamson

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Love and be loved

• Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. Leo Tolstoy
• Love and you shall be loved. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott

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Let love be your inspiration and religion

• Wherever you are, whatever you do, be in love. Rumi
• Love is my religion — I could die for it. John Keats
• Dedicate yourself to Love. Decide to let Love be your intention, your purpose, and your point. And then let Love inspire you, support you and guide you in every other dedication you make thereafter. Robert Holden
• Yea, let all those who have ears to hear, listen. For I tell you this: at the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now? Neale Donald Walsch
• Love is the ultimate coach. Do what you love, let love guide you, and let love inspire you. Robert Holden, Ph.D.
• Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. D. Walsch
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Love the world

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Love life

• Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein
• Be in love with your life, every detail of it. Jack Kerouac
• As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. Thomas Brown

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Love what you do

• Love what you do. Wayne Dyer
• Go ahead and do what you love to do. Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a single moment doing something for a living you don’t like to do. That is not a living, that is dying! Neale Donald Walsch
• The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible. Barbara Sher
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
• Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi
• Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. Natalie Goldberg
• Follow what you love! Don’t deign to ask what “they” are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change. Georgie Anne Geyer
• It’s actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. Jonathan Ive
• The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead. Charles Eames
• Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Robin Sharma
• Live what you love. Bob Blanchard
• What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. Sanaya Roman
• I have a motto: it’s never too late to give up. It’s never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love. Hans Rosling
• …we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.  R.R. Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring.The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.  Barbara Sher
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To receive love, we must be love

• All you have to do to have love is be love. Neale Donald Walsch
• If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away. Mark Twain
• If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself. If you wish to diminish fear in the world, diminish your own. These are the gifts that you can give. Gary Zukav
• If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin
• If you want to be loved – be lovable. Ovid
• In order to attract and maintain romantic and spiritual partnerships, you must be what it is that you’re seeking. That is, you always need to put forth what you want to attract. Wayne Dyer
• The more love you radiate out into the world, the more love will be returned to you.
• We believe we are hurt when we don’t receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our well-being is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well-being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!  Alan Cohen
• What love we’ve given, we shall have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. Leo Buscaglia
• Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away. Tom Wilson
• The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard
• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins
• The starting point or foundation of a life filled with love is the desire and commitment to be a source of love. Richard Carlson
• In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have. John O’Donohue
• There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first. Shannon L. Alder
• When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

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Seeking love keeps us from it

• Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal. Neale Donald Walsch
• How do you react when you think you need people’s love? Do you become a slave for their approval? Do you live an inauthentic life because you can’t bear the thought that they might disapprove of you? Do you try to figure out how they would like you to be, and then try to become that, like a chameleon? In fact, you never really get their love. You turn into someone you aren’t, and then when they say “I love you,” you can’t believe it, because they’re loving a facade. They’re loving someone who doesn’t even exist, the person you’re pretending to be. It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it, you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have. Byron Katie
• Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it. Byron Katie

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Don’t pretend to be someone else to be loved

• How can anyone ever love you for who you are if you become someone else to be with them? Stephan C. Paul
• Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth. F. Hodge
• How do you react when you think you need people’s love? Do you become a slave for their approval? Do you live an inauthentic life because you can’t bear the thought that they might disapprove of you? Do you try to figure out how they would like you to be, and then try to become that, like a chameleon? In fact, you never really get their love. You turn into someone you aren’t, and then when they say, “I love you,” you can’t believe it, because they’re loving a facade. They’re loving someone who doesn’t even exist, the person you’re pretending to be. It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it, you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have. Byron Katie
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The opposite of love is apathy, not hate

• The opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must “feel” something … or they couldn’t possibly hate. Therefore, there’s some way in which I can get to them. Leo Buscaglia
• Apathy — not hate — is the opposite of love. It is this apathy that leads first to the death of the psyche, and in its extreme form to the death of the body.  Jane G. Goldberg
• Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. Rollo May
• Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with. Rasmenia Massoud
• I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. August Strindberg
• I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.  Leo Buscaglia
• Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time. Peter Kreeft
• Indifference is the worst kind of response when love is expressed. Hate is not the antithesis of love; it’s the nonexistence of feeling, a pervasive apathy. When hate is present, so is love. It’s passion gone sour and fueled by pain, but, nonetheless, it’s passion and love is apparently still alive. Yet when indifference seeps into our spirits, an emotional numbness and permitted scotoma takes the place of any passion –whether it’s love or hate – and resigns in a new state of being. M.B. Wilmot
• Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. Libbie Fudim
• Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. William Hazlitt
• She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. Susan Wiggs
• The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel
• The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. Christopher Pike
• The opposite of love is not hatred. The opposite of love is indifference. Matthew Kelly
• Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent. Henry David Thoreau
• Diane: And everyone knows that hate is not the opposite of love. Indifference is. Sam: Well whatever you say. I really don’t care.  Ted Danson
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Apathy sucks the life out of love

• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low. Henry Ward Beecher
• The tragedy of love is indifference. William Somerset Maugham

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Love is always a better choice than hatred

• I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to humankind’s problems. I’ve seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South.  I’ve seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate, myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities, and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear.  I have decided to love.  If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love.  Those who hate do not know God, but those who love have the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.  Martin Luther King Jr.
• I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. Betty Greene
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End hatred with love

• Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love. Buddha
• Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr.
• This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Peace Pilgrim
• Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. Buddha
• Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by war. Our problems are solved by loving kindness, by gentleness, by joy.  Buddha
• Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. Margaret Cho
• Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom. Don Williams, Jr

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Where there is hatred, choose to sow love

• Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Francis of Assisi

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Love is a far more powerful force than hatred …

• Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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… though hate often comes more easily than love

• Perhaps people hate because it’s more difficult to love. It also takes more courage to do the latter. Primadonna Angela
• It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated. Norman Macdonald
• Why is it that hate comes out so easily, yet…love? It gets trapped inside.
• It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. René Descartes

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It’s a common conception that love and hate are poles apart

• Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one- handed, unwavering; unlike love. Margaret Atwood

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However, love and hate are, in fact, very close relatives

• We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives. Lise Deharme
• Hate and love are reciprocal passions. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
• Hate is often an obverse form of love.
• Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade. Jacqueline Carey
• Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more. It’s hate. James M. Cain
• Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can. Francesca Marciano

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Love and fear are opposites

• Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals. Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends. Every human thought, word or deed is based in one emotion or the other. You have no choice about this, because there is nothing else to choose. But you have free choice about which of these to select. Neale Donald Walsch
• All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions–fear or love. In truth, there are only two emotions–only two words in the language of the soul…. Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends. Neale Donald Walsch
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Love is letting go of fear

• Love is letting go of Fear. Gerald Jampolsky
• There is no such thing as an idle thought. All thought creates form on some level. Every thought leads to either love or fear. A Course in Miracles
• Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment – or unlearning – of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Marianne Williamson
• The forces of love are more powerful than the forces of fear. Whether love or fear prevails on earth is not determined by which is more powerful, but by which we allow to flow through us and thus out into the world. Marianne Williamso
• Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. Ram Dass
• It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. Alan Paton
• Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark. Stephen King
• Letting go

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Make choices bases on love, not fear

• Every single free choice you ever undertake arises out of one of the only two possible thoughts that there are: a thought of love or a thought of fear. Neale Donald Walsch
• Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Rumi
• Happiness and love are just a choice away. Leo Buscaglia
• It doesn’t matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it. Caroline Myss
• I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. Oprah Winfrey
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Jealousy is the antithesis of love

• In jealousy, there is more self-love than love. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• He that is jealous is not in love. Saint Augustine
• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings
• Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.  Maya Angelou
• “Love” is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein
• Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. Havelock Ellis
• Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy – in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Robert A. Heinlein
• Jealousy,  Envy

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Saying “I love you” is a privilege

• It should be a privilege to be able to say I love you to someone. It shouldn’t be something people say just because they feel like it. A privilege that is earned. They say you have to earn the right to be loved; no, love is unconditional, if you love someone, they don’t have to earn it. But. The right to tell someone that you love them? That has to be earned. You have to earn the right to be believed. JoyBell C.

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Tell them you love them

• If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Stephen Levine
• Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo F. Buscaglia
• Don’t write a good eulogy. Tell them now.
• Before someone’s tomorrow has been taken away, cherish those you love, appreciate them today. Michelle C. Ustaszeski
• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.  Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them. Jackson Brown Jr.
• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Og Mandino
• Present your family and friends with their eulogies now – they won’t be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from the grave.

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Romance thrives on love and is short lived without it

• Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short- lived. Danielle Steel
• True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well- being of one’s companion. Gordon B. Hinckley
• The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider ‘romance.’ Joss Whedon
• In real love, you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person. Margaret Anderson
• Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley
• Romance,  Romantic love

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It is better to have loved…

• Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. William M. Thackeray
• 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
• I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others. Richard Rohr

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• If I truly love one person I love all persons, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to somebody else, “I love you,” I must be able to say, “I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself. Erich Fromm
• It is really one moment of looking love dead in the eye that takes us everywhere in a flash. Swami Chetanananda
• Less is more unless it’s love. Ben Mittleman
• Love is beyond reason. Love is not measurable in words. Love cannot be partial; it cannot have owners. Love is essentially beyond definition or concept. Mabel Iam
• Love of the helpless one, love of the poor and the stranger, are the beginning of brotherly love. To love one’s flesh and blood is no achievement. Erich Fromm
• On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It’s never done. Never. Jeb Dickerson
• The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood
• The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love. C. Van Cherub
• The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one of two things: either love, or a call for love. Marianne Williamson
• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. K. Chesterton
• True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. William Butler Yeats
• Who loves a lot, forgives a lot. Amado Nervo
• Love doesn’t hurt. Love is not the problem. – Don’t blame love if a failed relationship interfered with your other important relationships, or robbed you of your self-esteem and personal freedoms.  No, don’t blame love.  For it wasn’t love that stole from you.  It was possession.  It was obsession.  It was manipulation.  It was confusion.  Love had nothing to do with your situation.  For love doesn’t close the door against all that is good.  It opens it wide to let more goodness in.  Love creates freedom and abundance.  Marc and Angel Chernoff

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• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.  John Barrymore
• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.  George Bernard Shaw
• Love is a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
• Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.  George Jean Nathan
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.  Robert Frost
• Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.  Arthur (Lord) Dewar
• Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.  L. Mencken
• Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.  Judith Viorst
• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin – it’s the triumphant twang of a bedspring. J. Perelman
• Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm
• Love is so confusing – you tell a girl she looks great and what’s the first thing you do? turn out the lights!   Robert Orben
• Love is staying up all night with a sick child or a healthy adult.  David Frost
• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.  John Barrymore
• Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.  Mencken H.L.
• Love is the only industry which can’t operate on a five-day week.  Mae West
• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.  L.Mencken
• Love is what happens to a man and woman who don’t know each other.   Somerset Maugham
• Love is what you make it; unfortunately, I can’t make it today as I have a doctor’s appointment.  Jarod Kintz
• Love: A form of self-government under a two-party system.
• Love: The triumph of imagination over intelligence.
• Love: Two minds without a single thought.  Philip Barry
• Love (funny quotes)

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