Lama Surya Das: “Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life -- not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.”
Marge Piercy: “Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”
Mary Oliver: “To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”
Wayne Dyer: “Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love -- love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.”
Charles Eisenstein: “Trust your intuition and be guided by love.”
Hafiz of Persia: “The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love.”
Dr. Seuss: “We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”
William Blake: “When thought is closed in caves, then love will show its roots in deepest hell.”
Anais Nin: “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
Hafiz of Persia: “When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more, And be happy.”
Elie Wiesel: “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.”
Amy Bloom: “In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The pont is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.”
Oprah Winfrey: “The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.”
Dorothy Sayers: “And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you -- I am at rest with you -- I have come home.”
Amy Bloom: “All intimacy is rare -- that's what makes it precious. And it involves the revelation of one's self and the loving gaze upon another's true self (no makeup, no fancy car, no defensive charm, no seduction) -- that's what makes it so damn hard. Intimacy requires honesty and kindness in almost equal measure (a little more kindness, I think), trust and trustworthiness, forgiveness and the capacity to be forgiven . . . It's more than worth it -- just don't let them tell you it's bilss.”
bell hooks: “The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.”
Hafiz of Persia: “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
Baruch Spinoza: “Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than if hatred had not preceded it.”
Hafiz of Persia: “We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.”
Susan Skye: “You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being.”
Sharon Salzberg: “It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. ”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “The giving of love is an education in itself.”
Oscar Wilde: “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Henry David Thoreau: “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
William Ellery Channing: “Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.”
Audre Lorde: “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.”
Hafiz of Persia: “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.”
Sharon Salzberg: “Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference -- in our own lives and those of others.”
Peace Pilgrim: “Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. ”
Andre Gide: “It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.”
Margaret J. Wheatley: “Love in organizations, then, is the most potent source of power we have available.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: “Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.”
Sam Keen: “Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
Victor Hugo: “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
David Augsburger: “Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.”
Jesse Pender: “From where we are there is always a path toward love. What takes discipline is continually choosing that path.”
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