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Quotes About Love to Inspire You for Change
Rhonda Shade © 2008

What is True Love? A strong attraction, a feeling for another? Is it unselfish concern for another human being? Is it romantic love or is it more?

Love can be confusing and it is a journey. Love can be hard to express without a basic foundation built from childhood. It starts with the love of self then branches out with expressions of love in every area of ones life.

Love is a source of mystery misunderstood by many. Too often we see in society broken relationships due to the confusion on how to love in a healthy way. How do couples prepare a foundation to ensure in the early years of the relationship that they will be able to deal with conflict, commitment, children, finances and more. Too many are quick to vacate the relationship when problems arise.

Love is the foundation of a happy life. Love has a calming and healing effect even through the tough times. The greatest joy, is love is meant to be shared and expressed everyday in our lives.

Eyes may provide sight, but it’s the heart which gives insight. I invite you to join me in this journey today as we go through 40 quotes on love that will inspire you for change.

Enjoy.

"Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now, real and true, the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator of our favourite memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams. Love is a promise that is always kept, a fortune that can never be spent, a seed that can flourish in even the most unlikely of places. And this radiance that never fades, this mysterious and magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all - one known only by those who love."
--Author Unknown

"Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust,
to risk, to try, to go on."
--Gloria Gaither

"Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely,
willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
--Leo Buscaglia.

"Love knows no limit to it’s endurance, no ends to its trust,
no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything.
Love still stands when all else has fallen."
--Author Unknown

"When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides."
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
--Willa Cather

“Looking at my life
I see that only Love
Has been my soul’s companion
From deep inside
My soul cries out:
Do not wait, surrender
For the sake of Love.”
--Jalaludin Rumi

“Love talked about is easily turned aside,
but love demonstrated is irresistible.”
--Stan Mooneyham

“I love you, not for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.”
--Roy Croft

“Love does not claim possession,
but gives freedom.”
--Rabindranath Tagore

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
--Sam Keen

“Life is a journey and it is love that makes that journey worthwhile.”
--Author Unknown

“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.”
--John Gray, Ph.D.

“You know what love is?
It is all kindness, generosity.
Disharmony prevails when
You confuse lust with love, while
The distance between the two
Is endless.”
--Jalaludin Rumi

“It is love that makes the impossible possible.”
--Indian Proverb

“The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.”
--William Wordsworth

“There is a terrible hunger for love.
We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness.
We must have the courage to recognize it.
The poor ,you may have right in your own family.
Find them. Love them.”
--Mother Theresa

“We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value, because we are left with memories that we treasure to the rest of our lives.”
--Unknown Author

“Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.”
--Unknown Author

“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”
--Victor Hugo

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
--Les Miserables

“We can do no great things;
only small things with great love.”
--Mother Theresa

“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”
--Sir Hugh Walpole

“I cannot sleep in your prescence.
In your absence, tears prevent me.
You watch me My Beloved
On each sleepless night and
Only You see the difference.”
--Jalaludin Rumi

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
--Henry Drummond

“Where there is love there is life.”
--Mahatma Gandhi

“Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.”
--Rabindranath Tagore

“Love is the doorway through which the human soul
passes from selfishness to service.”
--Author Unknown.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
--St. Augustine

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
--Helen Keller

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive,
is devoid of the power to love.”
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important
than your own.”
--H. Jackson Brown Jr

“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a wayas to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins
them by what is deepest in themselves.”
--Pierre Teilhard De Chardin.

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power
the world will know peace."
--Jimi Hendrix

“Love is the essence of God.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“It is not how much we do,
but how much love we put in the doing.
It is not how much we give,
but how much love we put in the giving.”
--Mother Theresa

“Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."
--Karen Casey

“If we really want to love
we must learn how to forgive.”
--Mother Theresa

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,
and the delight in the recognition."
--Alexander Smith

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