Love Quotes - Page 276

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.

Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress for our heart we need these small gestures that make us feel good Tenderness is a disinterested and generous love, that does not ask anything else to be understood and appreciated.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Men's vows are women's traitors

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.

The door of the human heart, can only be opened from the inside.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.