- “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, Let Me be a Woman
- “Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can’t help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.” ― T.H. White, Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome
- “Meditation offers the guide towards tranquility.” ― Victor Vote
- “yo te amo para comenzar a amarte,para recomenzar el infinitoy para no dejar de amarte nunca:por eso no te amo todavía.” ― Pablo Neruda, Cien sonetos de amor + las piedras del cielo + maremoto
- “I came here to show you the way to happiness is not through success but through love, compassion, and kindness.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “If you did not love the people while they live, what makes you think you can love them when they are dead?” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Sometimes… Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what’s right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin?” ― Solange nicole
- “Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?””I don’t know. I don’t think so.””Then how do people recognize each other?””I don’t know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don’t need your eyes to love, right?” ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
- “Never surrender to you’re passions. Dream and live to excess.” ― Truth Devour, Unrequited
- “In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder” ― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
- “I was stuck trying to find a part of me that would inspire the rise and fall of my chest as you once did…” ― Gabby Campos, There is Us
- “Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything in the dream was really you? Well this is how many mystics describe the nature of our reality, as a dream in which we think we are individual personalities existing in the physical universe. But eventually, like in all dreams, we will wake up. Except in this dream we do not wake up to realize we are still in the world, we awake from the world to realize that we are God.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.” ― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
- Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what. Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)
- “Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you’ve made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y’know?” ― Steven Barnes
- “Little snail,out after a hard rain,hiding in her shell—trying to make it to thewishing well,but being toldthat she’s too small tolift the pennies in…because she did not make themon her own.” ― Heather Angelika Dooley, Ink Blot in a Poet’s Bloodstream
- “Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love, Love will make us.” ― Julio Cortázar
- “Love says to a husband, ‘I love you too much to help you do wrong. I will not sit here and let you destroy yourself and me by cursing me every night. I cannot make you stop cursing, but I will not be here to receive it tonight. If you want to make our lives better, then I am open. But I won’t be a part of letting you destroy me.’“Your attitude is not to be one of abandonment but of love,” (…)“ there is never a time to stop loving someone, but there is a time to start expressing that love in a different, more effective manner. Love is not letting someone step on you. Love is caring so much for their well-being that you refuse to play into their sick behavior. Many people are healed when someone loves them enough to stand up to their inappropriate actions.” ― Gary Chapman, Hope For the Separated: Wounded Marriages Can Be Healed
- “What is the basic difference between saying ‘I know that God exists’ and saying ‘I know that love exists’?” ― Anthony Bloom
- “Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.” ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- “Whoever loveth knows God, for God is love.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child’s body, your wife’s dream of love, your own dream of life when you were sixteen. Exchange your illusions for a bit of truth. Throw out your politicians and diplomats! Take your destiny into your own hands and build your life on rock. Forget about your neighbor and look inside yourself! Your neighbor, too, will be grateful. Tell you’re fellow workers all over the world that you’re no longer willing to work for death but only for life. Instead of flocking to executions and shouting hurrah, hurrah, make a law for the protection of human life and its blessings. Such a law will be part of the granite foundation your house rests on. Protect your small children’s love against the assaults of lascivious, frustrated men and women. Stop the mouth of the malignant old maid; expose her publicly or send her to a reform school instead of young people who are longing for love. Don;t try to outdo your exploiter in exploitation if you have a chance to become a boss. Throw away your swallowtails and top hat, and stop applying for a license to embrace your woman. Join forces with your kind in all countries; they are like you, for better or worse. Let your child grow up as nature (or ‘God’) intended. Don’t try to improve on nature. Learn to understand it and protect it. Go to the library instead of the prize fight, go to foreign countries rather than to Coney Island. And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice inside you that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don’t entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.” ― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
- “Close your eyes and listen. Listen to your soul, it is speaking to you, softly, lovingly. Be grateful for this moment and every moment for we don’t know when it may be our last. We must love as if it is our last moment to do so, with all we are, and be grateful!” ― Jennifer D. Whipple
- “In 2017, I was invited to lead a mindfulness workshop and guide a live meditation on Mingus Mountain, Arizona, to over 100 men and women at a recovery retreat. On the eve of my workshop, I had the opportunity to join in a men’s twelve-step meeting, which took place by the campfire in Prescott National Park Forest, with at least 40 men recovering from childhood grief and trauma. The meeting grounded us in what was a large retreat with many unfamiliar faces. I was the only mixed-race Brit, surrounded by mostly white middle-class American men (baby boomers and Generation X), yet our common bond of validating each other’s wounds in recovery utterly transcended any differences of nationality, race and heritage. We shared our pain and hope in a non-shaming environment, listening and allowing every man to have his say without interruption. At the end of the meeting we stood up in a large circle and recited the serenity prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that one is me”.After the meeting closed, I felt that I belonged and I was enthusiastic about the retreat, even though I was thousands of miles away from England.” ― Christopher Dines, Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
- “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “How long you will live in your dreams? The time is now, it’s better to go and follow them..” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- “We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we only see the objects of form, and not the subjective Consciousness that lies within. Lust, greed, violence, selfishness—all arise from perceiving others in terms of their individual differences, seeing them only as bodies, and what we can get from them as bodies, rather than acknowledging the Being that lies within the body.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” ― Jim Valvano
- “The biggest waste of an opportunity is the opportunity to tell someone how much you love them.” ― Akash S. Bansal, Desires and Destiny