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Looking for true love ... the kind that makes you feel like you have come home? Or a love that takes your breath away? One that touches your soul and makes your heart beat faster?
If so, love is a heady mix of emotions, thoughts, energy and spirit .. all playing with every cell in your body. Because love does take us captive, turns our attention to joy and our life upside down. Pineapple cakes never had it so easy.
Here are a some of the greatest love quotes from the my quote collection ...
Love
It is difficult to define love. In the soul it is a passion to rule; in the mind it is sympathy; and in the body it is only a hidden and tactful desire to possess what we love after many mysteries.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential ... the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward. The greatest we can earn. Granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.
- Hellen Mirren in "The Passion of Ayn Rand" (movie)
The best proof of love is trust.
- Doctor Joyce Brothers
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
- Martin Luther King
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Love the unlovable.
- Jesus (of Nazareth ) Christ
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
- Kahlil Gibran
Love conquers all things.
- Virgil
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
- Native AMerican proverb
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
- Pascal
Banish Air from Air / Divide Light if you dare
- Emily Dickinson
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation. The realization of Divine love, the universal consciousness, is our responsibility to the creator.
- Morihei Ueshiba Book: The Spiritual Foundations of Aikido
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. IF you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.
- The Bhagavad-Gita
"You are capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You can feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. You see, in all of our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each Other."
- Alien speaking in Con.tact (movie)
Love turns ma into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.
- Swami Muktananda in Play of Consciousness (book)
...if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
- St. Paul
Critical Tasks
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
- Sydney Smith
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
- Clark Gable
There is only one romance -- the Soul's.
- William B. Yeats
The more space you allow and encourage within a relationship, the more the relationship willflourish.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
The purpose of relationships is not to have another complete you. But to have another with whom to share your completeness.
- Neale Donald Walsch
For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Challenges
If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The trouble with wedlock is there's not enough wed and too much lock.
- Christopher Morley
Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.
- Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God /2)
Your minds have limits, but not your hearts, for they are receptacles of endless capacity.
- Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani
A first impulse was never a crime.
- Pierre Corneille
Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.
- Erich Fromm
Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.
- Sextus Propertius
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
-John Ruskin
Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.
- Anne Lindbergh
I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.
- D. H. Lawrence
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
- William Shakespeare
Giving to others selflessly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all things.
- Lao Tzu
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (216)
Come and live with me, and be my Love;
And we will all the pleasures prove.- Christopher Marlowe
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
