Quotes on Love

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

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

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.