Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

- Charles Eisenstein

The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love.

- Hafiz of Persia

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

- Dr. Seuss

When thought is closed in caves, then love will show its roots in deepest hell.

- William Blake

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

- Franklin P. Jones

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

- Anais Nin

When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more, And be happy.

- Hafiz of Persia

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

(Oct. 1986)

- Elie Wiesel

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

- Peace Pilgrim

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

- Marge Piercy

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

- Andre Gide

Love in organizations, then, is the most potent source of power we have available.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

- Sam Keen

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

- Victor Hugo

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

- David Augsburger



In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. "Deserves" is not the point. And "owes" is certainly not the point. The pont is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.

- Amy Bloom



The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.

- Oprah Winfrey



And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you -- I am at rest with you -- I have come home.

- Dorothy Sayers



All intimacy is rare -- that's what makes it precious. And it involves the revelation of one's self and the loving gaze upon another's true self (no makeup, no fancy car, no defensive charm, no seduction) -- that's what makes it so damn hard. Intimacy requires honesty and kindness in almost equal measure (a little more kindness, I think), trust and trustworthiness, forgiveness and the capacity to be forgiven . . . It's more than worth it -- just don't let them tell you it's bilss.

- Amy Bloom



The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.

- bell hooks



Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

- Hafiz of Persia



That's all nonviolence is -- organized love.

- Joan Baez



Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than if hatred had not preceded it.

- Baruch Spinoza



We are
People who need to love, because
Love is the soul's life,
Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

- Hafiz of Persia



You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being.

- Susan Skye



We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

- Hafiz of Persia



It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

- Sharon Salzberg



The giving of love is an education in itself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt



To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

- Oscar Wilde



Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference -- in our own lives and those of others.

- Sharon Salzberg



We must love one another or die.

- W. H. Auden



Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

- Henry David Thoreau



There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

- Lorraine Hansberry



The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross



I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

- Paul Newman



Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

- Audre Lorde



Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.

- William Ellery Channing



True love stories never have endings.

- Richard Bach



Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.

- Audre Lorde



In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

- Madame de Stael



Love is being stupid together.

- Paul Valery



Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

- Madame de Stael



Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

- Madame de Stael



Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb; it is more than a feeling -- it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

- William Arthur Ward