Love

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Platonic love is love from the neck up. – Thyra Smater Winsolow

The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love. – A.C. Van Cherub, 2009

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. – Tom Robbins

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

Love touches the soul and awakens a desire so powerful that even the most vigilant heart is lured by its radiance. – Jamie Lynn Morris

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love? – Pisistratus Caxton, What Will He Do With It?

Feelings pass like clouds but love endures like the sky. – Peter Roberts (Omnipresent Love, @evolvewithlove)

In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations…. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

Love is the second prevailing virtue, that adorns her character. Without it she is like a closed blossom which exhibits neither its beauty or its fragrance; love reveals her inward mystery. – Frederick A. Rauch, “Of Woman,” Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Includ

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Love is the law of life. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. – V.F. Calverton

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo