Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.
ECKHART TOLLE, A New Earth
- Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire
- Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.
ARTHUR SYMONS, "In the Wood of Finvara"
- O love is the crooked thing,
- There is nobody wise enough
- To find out all that is in it,
- For he would be thinking of love
- Till the stars had run away
- And the shadows eaten the moon.
W. B. YEATS, "Brown Penny"
- Love, they say, is a pain
- Infinite as the soul,
- Ever a longing to be
- Love's, to infinity,
- Ever a longing in vain
- After a vanishing goal.
ARTHUR SYMONS, "Rosa Mundi"
Love can be a terrible curse. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, Brisingr
What is commonly called "falling in love" is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.
ECKHART TOLLE, A New Earth
- To have loved, to have been made happy thus,
- What better fate has life in store for us?
ARTHUR SYMONS, "Variations Upon Love"
Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, Eragon
I've never had my heart broken ... It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all ... My lover and my best friend and my partner has been my work. But I certainly would in life have wanted to know--would like to know--what it was like to have a real partner.
SALLY FIELD, Good Housekeeping, Mar. 2009
To love someone is to long to be loved by that someone.
CHRIS SEIDMAN, Little Buddy
Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Burnt Offerings
True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
THICH NHAT HANH, Teachings on Love
If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.
NORA ROBERTS, Blue Smoke
Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Blue Moon
- Happy is love or friendship when returned--
- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.
BION OF SMYRNA, "Friendship"
- A lover is like a firefly,
- lighting your life for a moment,
- then leaving you to deal with the darkness
- Until it flashes again.
Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.
Love made you vulnerable; if you gave your heart to another, they could leave you or die.
JOHN TWELVE HAWKS, The Traveler
Love is always right.
RICHARD LAYMON, The Stake
If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.
If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Obsidian Butterfly
Love, however doomed, had the capacity to attach buoys to the soul.
ARIANA FRANKLIN, Mistress of the Art of Death
- Love must be first and last, the part, the whole;
- Must fill the human void as ocean fills
- Its broadest channels, ancient as the hills,
- And slightest shell o'er which its waters roll.
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN, "Love"
- All human love is a faint type of God's;
- An echoing note from a harmonious whole;
- A feeble spark from an undying flame;
- A single drop from an unfathomed sea:
- But God's is infinite; it fills the earth
- And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.
ALBERT LAIGHTON, "The Love of God"
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