Love Isn't a Decision

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

We Love to Love

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

Loving in the Present

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart,

the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Barbara De Angelis

Remember the LOVE

“No one can tell you what your truth is or how to get there. They can only soften the path a little. But if you are awake and alive, there will come a time when you will have to examine your own heart. Whatever you do today, remember ONE thing. That in the end all that really matters is the LOVE! Did you seek it? Did you find it? But most importantly – DID YOU GIVE IT? Remember the LOVE.”

Veronica Hay

Barriers Within Yourself

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

How to Give Out Love

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz

Need for Love

The need for love is filled by loving. The need for friendship is filled by first being a friend. The need for peace is filled by being peaceful. What am I saying here? I'm saying that in order to receive you should give. Return is natural and spiritual law of life and success. The more you give, then the more you will receive. But it's the transformation of self in the process of service that is of greatest benefit. We all want to transform into something bigger and better. Releasing what you have on behalf of others is a great way to spark transformation. You unleash your greatest self and you set yourself up for huge returns.

Beginning of Love

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love and Hope

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

Dorothy Day

Love is Lost

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.

Lose Your Pride

It's better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of pride.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love Because

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

Inner Tranquility

The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Everything Looks New and Different

When traveling the path of life, and finding love along the way, Everything looks new and different. Little do you know it is the same old landscape you used to see all of the time; Love has just given you new eyes.

A Beautiful Smile

Love is a beautiful smile to which nothing compares: A tender laugh, which opens your heart, A single touch that melts away your fears, A smell that reminds you of the tenderness of heaven, A voice that reminds you of the innocence of youth.

Focusing

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Men Admire

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck

Your Love and Affection

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

December

One of the special joys of December is telling others we care and remember Love.