Love Quotes - Page 216

We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes, it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it.

Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay attention to paintings and sculptures and photo exhibits and ballets and plays. Don't let all this go unnoticed. Your world is shouting out to you, revealing something intrinsically glorious about itself. Listen carefully. Love art, the way art loves life.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .

Grumbling is the death of love

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

You put high heels on and you change.

Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.

In Silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed.In the heart shines the Light of Love.When the Light of Love is seen shining within your heart you behold the Light in all.Your heart will be filled with love and compassion for all.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.