Love: The Supreme Healer The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge. - Stephen Levine Love guards the heart from the abyss. - Mozart Life is fragile; love is the glue. - Bumper sticker seen at Spirit Rock Meditation Center The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured. - Louis Cozolino We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. - William Butler Yeats What love is I dont know if its not the response of our deepest natures to one another. - William Carlos Williams A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. - Blaise Pascal One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love. - Sophocles Theres no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is Gods finger on mans shoulder. - Charles Morgan Love is the law of life. - Mohandas K. Gandhi The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. - Thomas Merton Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Rumi It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painters eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. - Robert Brault Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Baldwin It is not necessary to be strong in every place if, in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. - Robert Brault Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston Love unlocks doors and opens windows that werent even there before. - Mignon McLaughlin For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a persons life. - William Wordsworth Life is relationships; the rest is just details. - Gary Smalley Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Eric Fromm Love is not consolation. It is light. - Friedrich Nietzsche For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. - Carl Sagan But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and low to a landscape that was previously flat. - Molly Haskell Earths the right place for love. I dont know where its likely to go better. - Robert Frost Take away love and our earth is a tomb. - Robert Browning That loves is all there is, is all we know of love. - Emily Dickinson Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. - Christopher Paul Rubero Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. - Kahlil Gibran Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. - Malagasy proverb Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. - D.H. Lawrence Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world; all else is folly. - Leo Tolstoy Time is too slow for those who wait, to swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke Love is like the dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. - Swedish proverb Let my love, like sunlight, surround you, yet give you illumined freedom. - Rabindranath Tagore Even after all these years, The sun never says to the earth, You owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole world. - Hafiz Inspired by Barbara Fredricksons: “Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become”
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