Love Quotes I picked these love quotes because they encompass love in its many forms. I tried to stay away from love quotes that seem obsessive, possessive, or co-dependent (of which there are MANY.)
Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart. -Julie Marie Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away. As long as our definition of a successful relationship is one that lasts forever - we are set up to fail. As long as we believe that we have to have the other in our life to be happy, we are really just an addict trying to protect our supply - using another person as our drug of choice. That is not true love - nor is it loving. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found. The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. Nothing is lovely without love itself, and nothing is lovlier than love itself. Love - 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. It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it. All you need is love. There is no remedy for love but to love more. The magic of the first love is the ignorance that it can never end. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. Love fails, only when we fail to love. No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts. I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame of that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above its strength. A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. 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. Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. "Forgiveness is an act of self-love" You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives. He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. I am a divine, magnificent, expression of Life. I express all this and more. For I am an unlimited being, forever unfolding. True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. "Love has no resistance. whatever we do is because we want to do it" What we love to do we find time to do. It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters. "Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant" Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. "You cannot be happy if you don't love yourself" Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. Don't forget to love yourself. With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone. Where there is great love there are always miracles. I love being alive and will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. I will seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me. Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. Life is to be fortified by many friendships - to love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existense. Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. The only love worthy of a name is unconditional. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. To love another person is to see the face of God. Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not. As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral... As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product. Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.
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