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40 Inspirational Quotes on New Beginnings to Live Your Best

Jessica Marati — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:13:13 +0000

EcoSalon’s favorite 40 quotes on fresh starts and new beginnings.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. -Henry Ward Beecher

In the dim background of our mind, we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. -William James

Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy. -Sarah Ban Breathnach

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. -Steve Jobs

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting. -Buddha

Start wherever you are and start small. -Rita Baily

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. -Alan Cohen

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. -J. B. Priestly

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -Saint Francis of Assisi

The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. -Mike Dooley

Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you’re going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. -Marilyn Grey

The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. -Franz Kafka

You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. -Barbara Sher

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t worry about being worried. You’re heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. -Tracy Kidder

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all that I can permit myself to contemplate. -John Steinbeck

You will never win if you never begin. -Helen Rowland

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. -Rumi

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. -Ben Stein

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. -Liz Smith

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. -Bruce Springsteen

Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. -Gilda Radner

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. -Mark Twain

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. -Ralph Blum

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember. -Anne Sullivan

Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. -Mary Manin Morrissey

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. -Dave Weinbaum

Don’t look further for answers: be the solution. You were born with everything you need to know. Make a promise to stop getting in the way of the blessing that you are. Take a deep breath, remember to have fun, and begin. -Jonathan H. Ellerby

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney

I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers. There aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. -W. Clement Stone

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw

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40 Best Quotes About Solitude

Jessica Marati — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:00:48 +0000

EcoSalon’s favorite 40 quotes about the joys of being alone.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -Albert Einstein

The whole value of solitude depends upon one’s self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it. -John Lubbock

I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I’m really scared of being alone; because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman. -Claire Danes

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. -Ellen Burstyn

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. -Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. -Honoré de Balzac

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. -Thomas Wolfe

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. -Paul Brunton

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -Henry David Thoreau

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. -Paul Johannes Tillich

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. –Thomas Browne

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. -Alice Koller

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. -K.T. Jong

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. -Marcus Aurelius

Without great solitude no serious work is possible. -Pablo Picasso

A man can be himself alone so long as he is alone… if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. -Arthur Schopenhauer

When I’m by myself, I can be myself, which is what I want to be. Not just a part of someone else. -Jean Culligan

That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires – smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge – are basically solitary pursuits. -Fran Lebowitz

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least – and it is commonly more than that – sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. -Henry David Thoreau

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. -Colette

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. –Roger Rosenblatt

Living alone, though it may not be the state you ultimately desire for yourself, affords an unparalleled opportunity to know yourself, to be yourself, and to develop yourself as a unique and interesting individual. -Phyllis Hobe

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. -Eugene Delacroix

People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company. -Albert Guino

Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen. -Anneli Rufus

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you. -Rumi

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. -Marya Mannes

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. -William Penn

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. -Jack Kerouac

Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart. -Jeanne Marie Laskas

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking… in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. -Franz Kafka

The person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a week has missed life’s greatest serenity. -H. Clay Tate

Solitude can be frightening because it invites us to meet a stranger we think we may not want to know – ourselves. -Melvyn Kinder

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. -Barbara De Angelis

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. -Wayne Dyer

You only grow when you are alone. –Paul Newman

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up. –Pearl S. Buck

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. –Gertrude Stein

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30 Best Quotes About Being Present

Jessica Marati — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:45:39 +0000

EcoSalon’s 30 favorite quotes about living in the moment.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. – Jim Rohn

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don’t think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. – Art Buchwald

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don’t you say the good now days? – Robert M. Young

When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. – Alexander Graham Bell

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. – Jean Cocteau

Forever is composed of nows. – Emily Dickinson

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. – John F. Kennedy

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. – Author Unknown

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life’s a journey, not a destination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat? – Goldie Hawn

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. – Buddha

Life is available only in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply. – Thich Nhat Hanh

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is. – Eckhart Tolle

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that’s worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today. – Henry Ford

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough troubles of its own. – Matthew 6:24, The Bible

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. – Sir Winston Churchill

The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. – Audrey Hepburn

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln

The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. – Author Unknown

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. – Lao Tzu

I just don’t want to live like I used to. And at some point, I’m going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I’ve got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future. – Charlie Sheen

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. – Leonardo da Vinci

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. – Eckhart Tolle

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. – Dale Carnegie

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30 Best Quotes About Travel

Jessica Marati — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:38:33 +0000

EcoSalon’s favorite 30 quotes about travel.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. – Pico Iyer

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. – Maya Angelou

Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself. – The Holstee Manifesto

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. – Bill Bryson

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya Stark

The traveler’s boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience — shocking though it may seem at the time — is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road. – Paul Theroux

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – John Steinbeck

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. – D. H. Lawrence

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. -Jack Kerouac

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey. – Fitzhugh Mullan

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. – Ray Bradbury

A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. – Katharine Butler Hathaway

Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting. – Robert Thomas Allen

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. – Alan Keightley

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. – Orson Welles

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. – William Least Heat-Moon

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

He who would travel happily must travel light. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. – Bumper sticker

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. – G. K. Chesterton

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. – Regina Nadelson

Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien

Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

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30 Best Quotes About Nature

Amy DuFault — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:12:52 +0000

EcoSalon’s favorite 30 quotes about nature.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
-Albert Camus

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
-Mary Oliver

Only when the last tree has been cut down,

Only when the last river has been poisoned,

Only when the last fish has been caught,

Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
-Cree Indian Prophecy

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
-Walt Whitman

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
-Emily Dickinson

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
-John Muir

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
-Wendell Berry

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
-Vincent Van Gogh

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
-Bob Dylan

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
–John James Audubon

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.
-Kahlil Gibran

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
-Willa Cather

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
-Navajo Proverb

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
-Georgia O’Keefe

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
-William Wordsworth

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
-Toni Morrison

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
-David Letterman

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
-Helen Keller

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
-Galileo Galilei

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty on a mountain.
-Victor Hugo

I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature.
-Neil Young

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
-e.e. cummings

If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in my walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.
-Vijali Hamilton

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The 50 Best Quotes About Love

Anna Brones — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:26:23 +0000

EcoSalon’s 50 favorite quotes about love.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence. – Thich Nhat Hanh

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. – Marilyn Monroe

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. – Oscar Wilde

Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence. – Virginia Woolf

My heart has more rooms in it than a whore house. – Gabriel García Márquez

It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang. – Tom Waits

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. – Mae West

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. – William Butler Yeats

Will you love me in December as you do in May? – Jack Kerouac

And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make. – The Beatles

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

I’ve looked at love from both sides now, from give and take, and still somehow, it’s love’s illusions I recall. I really don’t know love at all. – Joni Mitchell

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Tho’ you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you. -Leonard Cohen

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let’s do it, let’s fall in love. – Cole Porter

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. – Dorothy Parker

Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds, or bends with the remover to remove. Oh no! It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. – William Shakespeare

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. – Mae West

Love is a great beautifier. – Louisa May Alcott

The best thing to hold onto life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? – Mary Oliver

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it. – Yoko Ono

How long do you want to be loved? Is forever enough, is forever enough? – The Dixie Chicks

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. – C.S. Lewis

All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. – Julie Andrews

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – A.A. Milne

It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office. – Shirley MacLaine

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. – Buddha

I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart. – Alice Walker

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go. – Anonymous

Change everything except your loves. – Voltaire

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. – Henry David Thoreau

If you wish to be loved, love! – Seneca

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. – Khalil Gibran

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint Exupery

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. – Honore de Balzac

Love is space and time measured by the heart. – Marcel Proust

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. – Ivan Panin

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea. – e.e. cummings

Women are made to be loved, not understood. – Oscar Wilde

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. – David Bowie

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. – John Lennon

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening. – Adyashanti

Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the sky is blue, it makes me weep. – The Beatles

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen

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