When the heart opens completely, you will stumble upon the most powerful force in the universe - your loving eternal presence."
"Being authentic raises the possibility of being rejected when you're most vulnerable. You need to face this fear courageously.... When being alone becomes an acceptable option to you, you're freer to risk being yourself and loving openly."
We are here to love, to learn how to love and to become good at it. This is our greatest challenge and also our greatest reward."
"I'll struggle to connect to you if I'm not connected to me."
Jayson Gaddis
All of our relationships reflect certain parts of us. We all attract certain people into our life who have developed qualities opposite to the ones we are most identified with. In other words, they mirror our disowned selves, and we mirror theirs.
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| Love Quotes |
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense."
Tom Robbins
"And what would humans be without love?" "RARE, said Death."
Terry Pratchett
"Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves."
Brené Brown
"We are not here on earth to be understood. We are here to be understanding." Auriela McCarthy
"Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution."
Deepak Chopra
"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free."
Catherine Ponder
"Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, the heart that is not in love will fail the test."
Rumi
"Instead of trying to embrace what happened in the past, just love the one who survived it."
Matt Kahn
"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."
Herbert Spencer
You may not realize it, but resenting someone binds you just as tightly to that person as longing does. Before we can accept new love into our lives, we have to release any hurt and upset we're still holding onto from the past.
"Give and take doesn't exist in a good relationship. Only 'give and give' does." ~ Auriela McCarthy
"As long as you see yourself as broken---you are."
Jayson Gaddis
"Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors." Fred Rogers
"If you don't enjoy challenges and learning (specifically, learning about yourself), then you won't like marriage, and marriage won't like you. That's okay; it's not for everyone."
Jayson Gaddis
"The toughest thing is to love somebody who has done something mean to you. Especially when that somebody has been yourself."
Fred Rogers
"Stand up and shout: This is me! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package.... When you are strong enough to love yourself, you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you."
Stacey Charter
"First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever."
Rosemary Rogers
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them."
Rumi
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life for which the first was made."
Robert Browning
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect and to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself — if you are not capable of taking care of yourself — it is very difficult to take care of another person."
Thich Nhat Hanh
