Love Quotes - Page 84

Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.

For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Love is what we are; we don't get it from somebody, we can't give it to anybody, we can't fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.

I have so much of you in my heart.

To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

For those who love... time is eternity.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

They do not love that do not show their love.

To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

What is done in love is done well.