Love Quotes

These love quotes have the power to dissolve those walls and open our hearts to giving and receiving all sorts of love. Romance is just one aspect of love. Our primary relationship is with ourselves. When we love ourselves unconditionally, our world opens up to love on many levels. After exploring love quotes, take a look at relationship quotes, kindness quotes, service quotes and compassion quotes. They all cover different aspects of true love.

I think of love as a duty and joy. We are all aspects of divinity with a mission to love ourselves and all others. That is the supreme commandment. To love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Love is harmless. It is kind. And the act of falling in love is often a leap of faith because we make ourselves vulnerable. Know the risk is worth it! Allow these love quotes to motivate and inspire you along the way. If you happen to get bruised, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and try, try again.

If you want to attract something different, work on changing yourself. Develop new patterns. Try new things. Do what you love to do and reach out to others in places love can find you. Resist the urge to ‘isolate’. Get out in the world. Get involved with things you love and love will be drawn to you like a magnet.

I wish you love…beautiful, nurturing, supportive love that moves you along your true spiritual path. I gift you with this inspiration. Now look in the mirror every day and say, “I love you” until you really mean it. Imagine love filling every cell in your body until you pulse with love energy from head to toe. Now go out and play! You WILL have a love-filled day. With love and hugs,

Your personal joy and inspiration coach,
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There is no such thing as an idle thought. All thought creates form on some level. Every thought leads to either love or fear.
A Course in Miracles

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
Edward Abbey

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Maya Angelou

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh

To be loved and trusted by those who know us best is life's greatest compliment.
Jack Anthony

Love and do what you like.
Saint Augustine

Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
Richard Bach

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
R.J. Baughan

Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.
Melody Beattie

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Bo Bennett

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Louis de Bernieres

Love your neighbor as yourself.
Leviticus 19:18

I think that whenever soul is present, it’s because what you’re doing, whom you’re with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.
Jean Shinoda Bolen

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Our first and last love is…self-love.
Christian Nevell Bovee

Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence, shed your pretensions, and master the art of ingenious love.
Rob Brezsny

The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.
Rob Brezsny

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridge

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning

I love people. I love my family, my children…but inside myself is a place I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck

Love dies only when growth stops.
Pearl S. Buck

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha

The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.
Buddha

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
Buddha

You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
Buddha

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
Julia Cameron

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
Candide

Love absolutely everything that ever happens in your life.
Paul Cantalupo

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable…but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.
Johnny Cash

Where there is great love there are miracles.
Willa Cather

We accept the love we think we deserve.
Stephen Chbosky

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Cher

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everthing, you will be happiest.
Sri Chinmoy

Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.
Deepak Chopra

On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.
Deepak Chopra

Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.
Deepak Chopra

Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.
Deepak Chopra

By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
Paulo Coelho

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.
Alan Cohen

We believe we are hurt when we don’t receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!
Alan Cohen

Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. They you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
Alan Cohen

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy Collins

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Choose a job you love and you will never work another day in your life.
Confucius

The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.
Jeff Cox

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Roy Croft

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
Dalai Lama

It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.
Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes other feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Dalai Lama

It always comes back to just letting go with love. Just put the love in it. Whatever it is, and if you can't put love in it, don't do it.
Bhagavan Das

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
Emily Dickenson

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around…Throughout history, "tender loving care: has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
Larry Dossey

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
Fyodor Dostoyesvsky

Love either finds equality or makes it.
John Dryden

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer

Love what you do.
Wayne Dyer

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.
Betty Eadie

Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II

Love lights up the world…with its generous flames.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

After a few (or many) bad relationships, it's so easy to shut down, give up, and stop believing that the right person is out there for us. Our hearts yearn to fall in love, but our minds insist it's not possible, and we enter into a tug-of-war with ourselves. It's as if one part of us is screaming, Yes! I deserve a great relationship! while another part insists, I'll never find him or her. When our beliefs contradict our desires, we experience an inner conflict that not only paralyzes us, but can actually prevent us from recognizing the possibilities for love that exist all around us.
Arielle Ford

The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness. If we believe the world is a loving and friendly place, then most of the time that will be our experience. If we believe the world is a chaotic, stressful, and fearful place, then eventually that will become our reality. So, believing and knowing that your soulmate is out there is a critical first step in the formula for manifesting him or her into your life.
Arielle Ford

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Viktor Frankl

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Benjamin Franklin

Love is an act of courage, not of fear.
Paolo Freire

Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Erich Fromm

Love is a union with somebody, or someething, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. It is an experience of sharing, or communing, which permits the full unfolding of one's own inner activity.
Erich Fromm

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.
Gloria Gaither

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Mahatma Gandhi

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the law of life.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives.
Mahatma Gandhi

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Arne Garborg

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
Howard Gardner

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
Elizabeth Gilbert

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
Natalie Goldberg

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
William Goldman

Hatred never ceases by hatred; it only ceases by love. This is a timeless truth.
Joseph Goldstein

Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never broken, and dance like no one is watching.
Aurora Greenway

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Germaine Greer

I must tell you, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
Tenzin Gyatso

This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
Hafiz

I’ve never transcended what I haven’t embraced.
Jon Marc Hammer

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
Thich Nhat Hanh

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
Thich Nhat Hanh

When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
Thich Nhat Hanh

I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun.
Louise Hay

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Louise Hay

It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.
Louise Hay

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise Hay

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein

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

Happiness is love, nothing else.
Herman Hesse

Joy is the highest expression of love.
Abraham-Hicks

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey

Talk to me like I’m someone you love.
Helen Hunt

We invent what we love and what we fear.
John Irving

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elequently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.
Washington Irving

Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
Carl Jung

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
Byron Katie

It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
Byron Katie

Love is who we are without our stories.
Byron Katie

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Don’t forget to love yourself.
Søren Kierkegaard

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t even have to make your subject and verb agree to serve…You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another.
Daphne Rose Kingman

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
Jack Kornfield

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
Krishnamurti

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Krishnamurti

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone. It has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.
Ursula LeGuin

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

Life to too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.
Eric Maisel

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Rollo May

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
Carson McSullers

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.L. Mencken

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Marilyn Monroe

Love is not something you think about, it's a state in which you dwell.
Christopher Moore

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.
Tom Morris

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to--letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart

Neither lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love: that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller

Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
Caroline Myss

Dance is life. Stillness is love. Together, they are everything.
Debbie Nargi-Brown

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as though you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anaïs Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
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, or tarnishings.
Anaïs Nin

If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love; rather, we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the secret signature and light of our own nature.
John O’Donohue

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Osho

Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectation that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them.
Sara Paddison

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.
Satchel Paige

I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
Rosa Parks

When we love unconditionally, with our hearts wide open, we feel joyfulness.
Arnold Patent

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.
Wilferd Peterson

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.
John Powell

There is no place love is not.
Hugh Prather

The one who loves you will make you weep.
Argentine proverb

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.
Swedish proverb

Ultimately, love is self-approval.
Sondra Ray

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The ultimate goal of being ourselves in an authentic way is actually about loving ourselves in a generous way.
Mike Robbins

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

Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do…tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
Sir Ken Robinson

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
Auguste Rodin

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale Evans Rogers

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Jim Rohn

Love is the passionate dance between two hearts. It is to believe in the dream, and together make it real.
Sylvana Rossetti

Love life and life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Miguel Ángel Ruiz

At night I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me…Breathe into me. Close the language door and open the love window, the moon won’t use the door, only the window.
Rumi

Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.
Rumi

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don’t plant anything but Love.
Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Rumi

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you. This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
Rumi

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.
Rumi

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

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!
Sathya Sai Baba

Love one another and help others to rise to higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sathya Sai Baba

Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi

The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
Mitsugi Saotome

There is no real and true joy of if that joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without joy.
Torkom Saraydarin

Plant impossible gardens. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swing set, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Take moon baths. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Entertain your inner child. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters.
SARK

In love, one and one are one.
Jean-Paul Sartre

We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.
Charles M. Schulz

The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.
“The Secret”

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
Bernie Siegel

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Merle Shain

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

Love sees not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare

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

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that on one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara Sher

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.
Barbara Sher

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
John Philip Souza

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
Baruch Spinoza

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Anderson Stanley

What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.
Bessie Anderson Stanley

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Henri B. Stendhal

The essence of love is kindness.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.
Charles R. Swindoll

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.
Mother Teresa

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

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

Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love...She gives most who gives with joy.
Mother Teresa

Let us all meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world.
Mother Teresa

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Mother Teresa

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
Henry David Thoreau

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

All the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind.
Eckhart Tolle

Love, joy and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
Eckhart Tolle

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Leo Tolstoy

Love is much more demanding than law.
Desmond Tutu

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.
Mark Twain

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
Mark Twain

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
Mark Twain

We are most alive when we’re in love.
John Updike

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Don’t rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.
Russ Von Hoelscher

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.
Kurt Vonnegut

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

The more I wonder, the more I love.
Alice Walker

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
Sir Hugh Walpole

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

The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is.
Neale Donald Walsch

The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.
John Welwood

We no longer vibrate to fear when we're attuned to love.
Frank Whitney

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
Marianne Williamson

Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released…often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.
Marianne Williamson

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

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense every thing that comes from love is a miracle.
Marianne Williamson

We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson

We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?
Marianne Williamson

When love isn’t in our lives, it’s on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o’clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.
Marianne Williamson

Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death…Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.
Oprah Winfrey

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.
Oprah Winfrey

When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.
Oprah Winfrey

Love, genuine love, makes people good.
Victoria Wolff

True knowledge leads to love.
William Wordsworth

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.
William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love.
William Wordsworth

If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something.
Kobi Yamada

Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young

If children with terminal cancer can find love, joy, beauty and peace in their day – and they do – why don’t we?
Dan Zadra

If you love someone, hurry up and show it.
Rosie Zadra

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.
Gary Zukav

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
Gary Zukav