Living Love

Love is the single most important aspect of life.
-John Robbins

Love is the life of man.
-Emmanuel Swedenborg

Love will immediately enter into any mind
that truly wants it.
-A Course in Miracles

Love is not what we become
but who we already are.
-Stephen Levine

Love, exploring and experiencing itself,
is what we are in expression.
-Anthony Paul Moo-Young, "Mooji"

Where there is love there is life
 and where there is love there is light.
-Mohandas Gandhi

Love is the ultimate expression
of the will to live.
-Thomas Wolfe

We love because it's the only true adventure.
-Nikki Giovanni

To love is to live life to the fullest.
-Henry Miller

The moments when you have truly lived
are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
-Henry Drummond

When there is love in your heart,
everything outside of you also becomes lovable.
-Veeresh

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
-Barbara de Angelis

The moment you have in your heart
this extraordinary thing called love
and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it,
you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

A loving person lives in a loving world.
-Ken Keyes

To love is the great amulet 
which makes the world a garden.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Love does not rule, it cultivates.
And that is more.
-Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe

The important thing is not to think much,
but to love much;
and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
-Saint Teresa of Avila

It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.
-Douglas Jerrold

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit;
it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment.
-Saint Bernard

Do you need to have a reason for loving?
-Brigit Bardot

Love reasons without reason.
-William Shakespeare

O deep love that inspires me to do anything.
-Christian Morgenstern

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The things that we love
tell us what we are.
-Thomas Aquinas

You are what you love.
-Saint Augustine

A man is not where he lives,
but where he loves.
-Latin Proverb

Any place we love 
becomes our world.
-Oscar Wilde

To love is an expression
of one's power to love.
-Rollo May

It's love's nature to be expressed.
-Steve Maraboli

Love is not a passive state.
It is an active force.
It is the force of the soul.
-Gary Zukav

To love is to escape from doubt,
it is to live in the certainty of the heart.
-Gaston Bachelard

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
-Kahlil Gibran

To love is to escape from doubt,
it is to live in the certainty of the heart.
-Gaston Bachelard

People think love is an emotion.
Love is good sense.
-Ken Kesey

The human being can be walking in right consciousness
only when motivated by love.
-Willem Koppejan

Love is not an emotion,
but a way of being and relating to the world.
-David R. Hawkins

Love does not need an intention or an object to love.
It is the highest expression of the being in recognition of itself.
It is the unity of Being.
Your being just radiates this love - effortlessly.
You are just your Self.
It is a state of emptiness.
-Anthony Paul Moo-Young, "Mooji"

Love it the way it is.
-Thaddeus Golas

The living world responds to love.
-William Douglas Horden

The desire and pursuit of the whole
is called love.
-Plato

Love is the outreach of self
towards completion.
-Ralph W. Sockman

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without
and know we cannot live within.
-James Baldwin

Love is a state of psychic wholeness.
-Vernon Howard

Selflessness is the singular expression of love.
-Swami Rama

If so many men,
so many minds,
certainly so many hearts,
so many kinds of love.
-Leo Tolstoy

Love is like the sea.
It's a moving thing, but still and all,
it takes its shape from the shore it meets,
and it's different every shore.
-Zora Neale Hurston

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices;
he is free and nothing holds him back.
-Henri Matisse

He who loves
finds the gate open.
-Rabindranath Tagore

To love deeply in one direction
makes us more loving in all others.
-Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Love many things for therein lies the true strength,
whoever loves much performs much
and can accomplish much,
and what is done in love is done well.
-Vincent van Gogh

I loved to love...
I sought what I might love,
in love with loving.
-Saint Augustine

Only love interests me,
and I am only in contact
with things that revolve around love.
-Marc Chagall

A love should never displace love.
-James Davis and John Raifsnider

The most important aspect of love
is not in giving or receiving but in being.
-Richard Alpert, "Ram Dass"

I am not interested in being a "lover."
I an interested only in being love.
-Richard Alpert, "Ram Dass"

The more we love, the better we are.
-Jeremy Taylor

Indeed, the more we find to love,
the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
-Lloyd Alexander

All that you've loved is all you own.
-Tom Waits

His love was like the liberal air,
embracing all, to cheer and bless.
-William Wordsworth

Love doesn’t have an object,
it covers everything.
-John de Reuter

There is always something left to love.
-Lorraine Hansberry

When there is love in your heart,
everything outside of you also become lovable.
-Veeresh  

It is not the perfect but the imperfect
that is in need of our love.
-Oscar Wilde

If love means anythings at all
it means extending your hand to the unloveable.
-Quentin Crisp

The lower a man descends in his love,
the higher he lifts his life.
-William R. Alger

Love is a state of mind or a vision
that handles all things equally.
-Hugh Prather

There are a hundred paths through the world
that are easier than loving.
But who wants easier?
-Mary Oliver

Love is that inner quality
that sees good everywhere and in everybody.
It insists that all is good,
and by refusing to see anything but good
it causes that quality to appear
uppermost in itself, and in all things.
-Rebecca Clark

Love, whether newly born,
or aroused from a deathlike slumber,
must always create sunshine,
filling the heart so full of radiance,
that it overflows upon the outward world.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

The lock of error shuts the gate,
Open it with the key of Love.
-Kabir

Love laughs at locksmiths.
-George Colman the Younger

Love unlocks doors and windows
that weren't even there before.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
-Sai Baba

The cure for all the ills and wrongs,
the cares, the sorrows and crimes of humanity,
all lie in that one word "love."
-Lydia M. Child

There is no difficulty
that enough Love won't conquer.
-Emmet Fox

One word
Frees us from all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
-Sophocles

We are all born for love;
it is the principle of existence and its only end.
-Benjamin Disraeli

And we are put on earth a little space,
that we may learn to bear the beams of love.
-William Blake

I know that the very essence of my being
and the way of transforming my life is love.
-Wayne Dyer

Our practice is to live our daily lives
in such a way that every moment, every act,
becomes an act of love.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Start the day with love,
fill the day with love,
spend the day with love
and end the day with love.
-Sai Baba

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day
in the state of love.
Every movement, every glance, every thought,
and every word can be infused with love.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

To love is to think of nothing else.
-Robert Sabatier

When you learn to love
what is good and beautiful
and when you live with love night and day,
no force in the universe
will be capable of resisting you.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

My love has been transformed into flame,
and this flame is gradually consuming
all that is earthly in me.
-Novalis

I used to read the myths of love
Now I have become the mythic lover.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi

Love in all eight tones and five semitones
of the world's full octave.
-Steven Fry

Love can never be fully expressed, though,
for love is not of the relative planes of existence.
-John Sandbach

Love is most nearly itself
when the here and now cease to matter.
-T. S. Eliot

The goal is to leave a legacy of love.
-Bernie Seigel

I said only one word,
brought only one message:
Love.
Love - nothing else.
-Nikos Kazantzakis