Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of …
Rainer Maria Rilke on Love
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875–December 29, 1926) I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are …
Thich Nhat Hanh On Love
Thich Nhat Hanh (October 11, 1926 -) In a deep relationship, there’s no longer a boundary between you and the other person. You are her and she is you. Your suffering is her suffering. Your understanding of your own suffering helps your loved one to suffer less. Suffering and happiness are no longer individual matters. …
Maria Popova On Love
Maria Popova (July 28, 1984 -) To love every fiber of another’s being with every fiber of your own is a rare, beautiful, and thoroughly disorienting experience — one which the term in love feels too small to hold. Its fact becomes a gravitational center of your emotional universe so powerful that the curvature of …
Adyashanti On Love
Adyashanti (October 26, 1962 -) To be loving isn’t to be perfect — it’s to be connected and warm with both ourselves and others. It’s to be residing in the humble heart.
Teilhard de Chardin On Love
Teilhard de Chardin (May 01, 1881 – April 10, 1955) Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire.
Gaston Bachelard On Love
Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) Written love … is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries… To tell a love, one must write… Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses …
Xiaolu Guo On Love
Xiaolu Guo (1973 -) "Love," this English word: like other English words, it has tense. "Loved" or "will love" or "have loved." All these specific tenses mean Love is time-limited thing. Not infinite. It only exist in particular period of time. In Chinese, Love is (ai). It has no tense, no past, no future. Love …
James Broughton On Wondrous The Merge
James Broughton (November 10, 1913 – May 17, 1999) Had my soul tottered off to sleep taking my potency with it? Had they both retired before I could leaving me a classroom somnambulist? Why else should I at sixty-one feel myself shriveling into fadeout? Then on a cold seminar Monday in walked an unannounced …
Ursula K Le Guin On Love
Ursula K Le Guin (October 21, 1929 - January 22, 2018) There is no less or greater in an absolute thing. All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it is …
Frank Ostaseski On Love
Frank Ostaseski In the horror of my own suffering, I always had held out the hope that one day someone would rescue me. I had imagined that I would be saved by love coming toward me. Just the opposite. I was rescued when love came through me.
Martha Nussbaum On Love
Martha Nussbaum (May 06, 1947 -) The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart. 🎂Happy Birthday Martha Nussbaum (May 06, 1947 -)
Buddha On Love
Buddha (c. 563 BCE/480 BCE – c. 483 BCE/400 BCE) 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 …
Rainer Maria Rilke On Love
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is at …
