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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.
To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.
Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.
You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.
Without love, the world itself would not survive.
For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.
In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.
The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening.
With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
Kissing power is stronger than will power.
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.”
Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."
Love is thick and it swallows me whole.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.
What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised?
The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.
The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.
Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
Love is the selfishness of two persons.
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
To love someone is to identify with them.
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I've listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.
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.
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.
To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
The measure of love is love without measure.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.
We live by faith. We love by faith.
Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.
Love does not conquer all.
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone, and she's always gone too long, anytime she goes away.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.
I just loved him and he loved me... He was a most humble man, the most decent man I've ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me. He said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily and even though I left the church and was not religious, that truth remained with me.
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you've never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more.
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections
Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.
