When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.
Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.
Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.
The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.
Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.
Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. _x000D_ Today, I choose to give love.
The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.
Love is what we are; we don't get it from somebody, we can't give it to anybody, we can't fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you cannot help but love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people.
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.
I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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