Love

Haruki Murakami

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's  stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. 

Haruki Murakami

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was  to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

William Shakespeare   

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare   

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare   

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Albert Einstein 

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein 

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Alfred Tennyson

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. 

André Gide 

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

André Breton

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

Anaïs Nin

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Betty Smith

I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, you well be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.

 

Bhagwan Das

God is love in essence. Love is god in solution. In so much as we love we are in god and god is in us, and in so far as we do not love we are without god, in this world or any other. The ideal church of all religions and philosophies is the same. It is the union of all who love in the service of all who suffer.  anon. Cited in bhagwan das, the essential unity of all religions

Billie Holiday

   Don’t threaten me with your love Let’s  just go  walking  in the rain

Brigitte Bardot

Do you have to have a reason for loving? –

Charles Bukowski

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Chuck Palahniuk

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.

Charles M schulz

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite  unrequited love.

Charlie Chaplin

"Socrates Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find "

Charlie Chaplin

Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find

Complete Works

 

Love tends to be a more active energy, the act of giving oneself uncondi­tionally Gratitude is a more passive energy, a feel­ing that results from hav­ing been given something. Religion is a constitutional necessity of the human mind. The proof of one religion depends on the proof of all the rest. For instance, if I have six fingers, and no one else has, you may well say that is abnormal. The same reasoning may be applied to the argument that only one religion is true and all others false. One religion only, like one set of six fingers in the world, would be unnatural. We see, therefore, that if one religion is true, all others must be true. There are differences in  the non-essentials, but in essentials they are all one. Talk given at Unity Hall, Hartford (Connecticut), USA, on March 8, 1895, as reported in "Hartford Times" (March 11, 1895). Complete Works,

Complete Works

 

Love tends to be a more active energy, the act of giving oneself uncondi­tionally Gratitude is a more passive energy, a feel­ing that results from hav­ing been given something. Religion is a constitutional necessity of the human mind. The proof of one religion depends on the proof of all the rest. For instance, if I have six fingers, and no one else has, you may well say that is abnormal. The same reasoning may be applied to the argument that only one religion is true and all others false. One religion only, like one set of six fingers in the world, would be unnatural. We see, therefore, that if one religion is true, all others must be true. There are differences in  the non-essentials, but in essentials they are all one. Talk given at Unity Hall, Hartford (Connecticut), USA, on March 8, 1895, as reported in "Hartford Times" (March 11, 1895). Complete Works,

Confucius

I am not born a wise man. I am merely in love with ancient studies and work very hard to learn them.

Dalai Lama

From the earliest stages of our growth, we are completely dependent upon our mother's care and it is very important for us that she express her love. If children do not receive proper affection, in later life they will often find it hard to love others.

David Mitchell

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

Diana Gabaldon

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Diana J Gabaldon  

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Bulber lytton

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. 

Chuck Klosterman

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. 

Hazrat Ali

Meditation in God is my capital Reason and sound   logic are the root of my existence Love is the  foundation of my existence Enthusiasm is the vehicle of my life Contemplation of Allah is my companion Faith is the source of my power Sorrow is my friend Knowledge is my weapon Patience is my clothing   and virtue Submission to the Divine Will is my pride Truth is my salvation Worship is my habit And in  prayer lies   the coolness of my eye and my peace of mind.

Honoree de balzac

The more one judges, the less one loves. 

Igor Stravinsky

In order to create there must be a dynamic force and what force is more potent than love?

Iris Murdoch

Love Is the difficult realization that something other than oneself Is real.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ... 

Izumi Shikibu

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jodi Picoult

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Updike

We are most alive when we're in love –

Jonathan Safran Foer

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

Kate Mosse

We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.

Kōshun Takami

“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.” ...

Leo Tolstoy

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. 

Leo Tolstoy

I have learned that every man lives, not through care of himself, but by love.

Leo Tolstoy

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. 

Mencius

Love cannot be outnumbered

Mencius

The ways are two love and want of love.

Mother teresa

What counts is how much love there is in the giving and not how much we give.

Mother teresa

You must give what will cost you something... then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love.

Mother teresa

True love is love that causes us pain that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray and ask for the courage to love.

Mother teresa

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

Mother teresa

What counts is how much love there is in the giving and not how much we give.

Mother teresa

You must give what will cost you something... then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love.

Mother teresa

Your suffering is a great means of love, if you make use of it, especially if you offer it peace in the world.

Mother teresa

Christ’s love is always stronger that the evil in the world, so we need to love and be loved: it’s as simple as that.

Mother teresa

You call him ishwar; some call him allah, some simply god. But we all have to acknowledge that it is he who made us for greater things: to love and be loved.

Narayana Guru

Love of others is my happiness, Love that is mine is happiness for others. And so, truly, deeds that benefit a man must be a cause for other's happiness too.  

Neil Gaiman

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day,  kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase  'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you love life, life will love you back.

Osho

A religious person has nothing to do with organised religion, but he has something to do with the inner poetry, the poetry of life. He has something to do with the inner dance; he has a dancing energy. He is in deep romance with life, he is in romantic love with life. He is immensely grateful for each moment of joy that God goes on giving. And we are not even worthy. We don't deserve it. We have not earned it. It is a gift. 

Osho

I love life. That's why I give teachings of celebration, celebrate everything. From body to sou, physical to spiritual, sex to super consciousness, everything is divine for me.

Osho

I would like you to relate with people, to love, to move in millions of relationships — because They enrich — and yet remain capable of closing your doors and sometimes having a holiday from all relationships... So that you can relate with your own being also.

Osho

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

Osho

It is a paradox of life that when you try to imprison love, to put it in bondage, love degenerates and dies. And we have all killed love in our foolish attempts to possess it.

Pedro Calderón

When love is not madness it is not love.

Brooks Philips

Duty makes us do Things well, but love makes us do Them beautifully.

Rainer M Rilke

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you  an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

Robert Frost

We love the things we love for what they are.

Shree Guru Granth Sahib

If the mind becomes then balanced and detached and comes to dwell in its own true home, imbued with the love of God, then it enjoys the essence of supreme spiritual wisdom; it shall never feel hunger again.

Shree Guru Granth Sahib

If the mind becomes then balanced and detached and comes to dwell in its own true home, imbued with the love of God, then it enjoys the essence of supreme spiritual wisdom; it shall never feel hunger again.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

If you enter the world without first cultivating love for God, you will be entangled more and more.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

One must go into solitude to attain this divine love.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Practice spiritual discipline in solitude and obtain the butter of knowledge and love.     

Marie Henri Beyle

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love

Swami Vivekananda

Krsna says, "Look at Me, Arjuna! If I stop from work for one moment, the whole universe will die. I have nothing to gain from work; I am the one Lord, but why do I work? Because I love the world." God is unattached because He loves; that real love makes us unattached. Wherever there is attachment, the clinging to the things of the world, you must know that it is all physical attraction between sets of particles of matter—something that attracts two bodies nearer and nearer all the time and, if they cannot get near enough, produces pain; but where ignorant do with desire for results and gain, let the wise do without any attachment and without any desire for results and gain.              

Ecclesiasticus

Be not wanting in comforting them that weep, and walk with them that mourn. Be not slow to visit the sick: for by these  things thou shalt be confirmed in love. 

Ecclesiasticus

Wine and Music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both.

The Eagles

"When we’re hungry love will keep us alive"  

Walter Mosley

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.