"Love is the beauty of the soul."
St. Augustine
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and
know we cannot live within."
James Baldwin
"Love is the burning point of life, and because life is suffering so is love."
Joseph Campbell
"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across
fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't
laugh if you trip."
Jonathan Carroll
"Love never hurts you. Its not loving yourself that
hurts you."
Barbara De Angelis
"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this
is an old rule."
Dhammapada
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against
feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
George Eliot
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature
love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Erich Fromm
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always
yours. And if they don't, they never were.”
Kahlil Gibran "The Prophet"
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one
cup... Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be
alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone thought they quiver with the
same music."
Kahlil Gibran "The Prophet"
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
Zora Neale Hurston
"So I will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break."
Billy Joel "So It Goes"
"You may be right
I may be crazy.
But I just may be a lunatic you're looking for."
Billy Joel
When you press me to your heart
I'm in a world apart
-La Vie En Rose
"Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual
passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and
passions,"
D.H. Lawrence
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
-Leaving on a Jet Plane
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in
madness."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the
person who loves you a chance to love you enough."
Dinah Shore
"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all
others."
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Anyone may gather it, and no limit is set."
Mother Teresa
"You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful
and natural employment of the soul of man."
Thomas Traherne
"We tend to wear suits of armor, one over the other... We hope
we will not have to completely undress."
Chogyam Trungpa
