Love Quotes - Page 228

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally

Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

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.

Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

Love God. Live Called. It's not just devotional, it's vocational!

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others — really see them, wholeheartedly — springs open.