Love is the elixir of life. It has been found to have power even to cure physical and mental disorders.
Real love is selfless and free from fear. It pours itself out upon the object of its affection without demanding any return. Its joy is in the joy of giving. Love is God in manifestation and the strongest magnetic force in the universe.
Love does not dominate, it cultivates.
The distinguishing marks of love, it should be evident, are disinterestedness, tranquillity and humility. When love is selfish, it can be destroying; it will destroy him who gives and him who takes. It is twice cursed. It is better not to love than to love selfishly.
As soon as a person can truly learn to love the disagreeable or restrictive person with whom he is involved, he will be released from this bondage.
Accord and harmony in family life cannot be brought about by any of the articles of comfort or luxury in the house. Accord and harmony are the ripe fruit of mutual love. In the absence of love the essence of family life is missing. The body is well attired. But there is no life within!
We can get along with a little money in this world if we will; but love is a quality of which we need to possess in abundance and of which we cannot have too much.
Love is infallible; it has no errors, for all errors are the want of love.
Let everyone understand that real love of God does not consist in tear-shedding, nor in that sweetness and tenderness for which usually we long, just because they console us, but in serving God in justice, Fortitude of soul and humility.
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a now starting-point for happiness and usefulness.
All men require something to poetize their natures, and the love of an estimable woman surely does this.
A great many difficulties arise from falling in love with the wrong person.
Love may be, and is with a good man, the greater and better part of his life, but it is not all his life. It is unfortunately true that with a woman, love – the love she bears her husband – is her ‘whole existence.’
Love is critical to a successful relationship and, when divorced from ego, is able to be given away freely and easily, resulting in a wonderful sense of fulfilment.
To build up your life upon universal love is to reap the rich harvest of real peace and happiness.
To love God, excluding the world, is to give Him an intense but imperfect adoration.
There exists a great gift in giving unconditional love to those around you. Give nothing but love without asking for anything in return. For when you give in this manner you receive the greatest blessing and gift of all, the joy and fulfilment that infuses you with an understanding of your purpose in life.
By love I do not mean any natural tenderness, which is more or less in people according to their constitution; but I mean a larger principle of the soul, founded in reason and piety, which makes us tender, kind and gentle to all our fellow creatures as creatures of God, and for his sake.
The genuine love is an expression of productiveness and implies care, respect, responsibility and knowledge. It is an active string for the growth and happiness of the loved person, rooted in one’s own capacity to love.
Unselfish love has enormous creative and therapeutic potentialities, far greater than most people think. Love is a life giving force, necessary for physical, mental, and moral health.
The whole world is eager to receive pure love. We should distribute it without expecting anything in return. Give it, with no desire for reciprocation.
To love is to have that extraordinary feeling of affection without asking anything in return.
Love is everything whether you are rich or poor; it is the emotional capital that counts most.