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Let no one who loves be called unhappy.
Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J.M. Barrie

It is only through love that we can attain to communion
with God.  All living knowledge of God rests upon this
foundation:  that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.


Albert Schweitzer

   

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 Hilburn Sell

      

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves,
the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God
the energies of love.  Then, for the second time in the
history of the world, humans will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  

Love is what we were born with.  Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson


With love, even the rocks will open.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

   
To love for the sake of being loved is human,
But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse De Lamartine
 

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the
outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.  A sufficient
realization of love will dissolve it all.  If only you could love enough
you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

Emmet Fox

   

The one thing we can never get enough of is love.
And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving, which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

Carol Pearson

   

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Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets.  When you are behaving as if
you loved someone, you will presently come to love him or her.


C.S. Lewis

  

Love is the master key which
opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  
  
What a grand thing, to be loved!
What a grander thing still, to love!

Victor Hugo

   

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love:
the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing
love from which flowers and children have their strength and which
could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting.

Rainer Maria Rilke

   
  

If you judge people, you have
no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Choose to be a love-finder
rather than a faultfinder.

Gerald Jampolsky

  

   

When we connect with ourselves in love,
we can connect with others and the planet in love.

Rattana Hetzel

  
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given, and truly
love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

Marcus Aurelius

  

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that
the moments when you really lived are the moments
when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

   

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise.  It's hard
to hear pride.  Caring is real faint--like a heartbeat.
And pure love--why, some days it's so quiet,
you don't even know it's there.

Erma Bombeck

   

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The essence of love is kindness.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

   
You must love yourself before you love another.
By accepting yourself and fully being what you
are . . . your simple presence can make others happy.

Jane Roberts

  

In our life there is a single color, as on
an artist's palette, which provides the meaning
of life and art.  It is the color of love.

Marc Chagall

  

   

A five-word sentence that could change the world
tomorrow is "What would love do now?"

Neale Donald Walsch

  
Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

Leo Buscaglia

  

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

Morrie Schwartz

   

  

I release any unpleasantness from the past and let it sail away.
I envision it going through the mists of my memories,
over the horizon, and out of sight.  Love rushes in to fill
any empty places within my heart or mind.  Now I am free
to do what is before me and free to do it better than ever
before.  I am free to enrich my life and everything concerning me.

unattributed

   
In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you love?
How deeply did you learn to let go?

the Buddha

  
   
   
   
People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
   

From suffering I have learned this:  that whoever is
sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she
embraces the very same love which wounded her.

Mechtild of Magdeburg

   

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Jakob Burckhardt

   

   

Love has no claims.  Love has no expectations.  Most of us were raised
to become prostitutes.  We have the illusion that with good behavior, good
grades, lots of awards, pretty clothes, nice smiles, we can buy love.  How
many ifs were you raised with?  I love you if you make it through high school.
I love you if you bring good grades home.  Boy, would I love you if I could
say my son is a doctor.  You become a doctor or a lawyer, or what your
parents never were able to become, with the illusion that they will love you
more.  Love can never be bought.  There are people who spend their lives
prostituting themselves, pleasing other people in the hope of getting love.
They will shop the rest of their lives for it and they will never find it.

Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross

    

The union of the family lies in love;
and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

Robert H. Benson

   

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Love is that which is without condition, without limitation, and without need.
Because it is without condition, it requires nothing in order to be expressed.
It asks nothing in return.  It withdraws nothing in retaliation.  Because it is
without limitation, it places no limitation on another.  It knows no ending, but
goes on forever.  It experiences no boundary or barrier.  Because it is without
need, it seeks to take nothing not freely given.  It seeks to hold nothing not
wishing to be held.  It seeks to give nothing not joyously welcomed.  And it is
free.  Love is that which is free, for freedom is the essence
of what God is, and love is God, expressed.

Neale Donald Walsch
in Friendship with God
    

   

   

Articles and book excerpts on love:

A Place of Refuge      Rachel Naomi Remen
A Potent Weapon      Bernie Siegel

You're a Beautiful Person      tom walsh

Born with Love      Marianne Williamson

Is Love an Art?      Erich Fromm

Meditation on Love      Thich Nhat Hanh

The (Ig)Noble Flames of Anger      Lucy Lopez

God Loves You      Joe Mazzella

Love, Wealth and Success      Author Unknown

My Favorite Four-Letter Words      Norman Vincent Peale

Ripples of Love      Joe Mazzella

Shaya's Home Run      Paysach Krohn

Sixty Years, Headed to Forever      Staci Stallings

A Story about Ugly      Author Unknown

The Best Gift      Betty Werth