"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."

-Blaise Pascal

"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey." 

-Lord George Gordon Byron

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." 

-Sam Keen

"The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion." 

-Pico Iyer

"I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight. I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence. A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us." 

-Pema Chödrön

"This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do?" 

-Osho

"The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it." 

-Adyashanti

"If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you." 

-Marianne Williamson

"Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings that puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within." 

-Sigmund Freud

"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows." 

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is." 

-Marianne Williamson

“We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.” 
-Marianne Williamson

"Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever." 
-Sri Chinmoy

"In truth, to see anything without love is to see it fearfully. Threat doesn't arise "out there." Its origins are "in here," where we first establish our beliefs. Every threat is a shadow from the past." 

-Deepak Chopra

"The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty." 
-Deepak Chopra

"Letting go doesn't mean we don't care. Letting go doesn't mean we shut down. Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible--controlling that which we cannot--and instead, focus on what is possible--which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible." 

-Melody Beattie

“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend… when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.” 

-Sarah Ban Breathbach

"If we live with the understanding of impermanence, we will cultivate and nurture our love. Only then it will last." 

 -Thich Nhat Hanh

“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” 

-Mary Oliver

“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”
-Marianne Williamson