Treasured Love Quotes

A Collection of Great Quotes

These are some of the quotes that have hit me so strongly in times past. Clearing out some old things and wanted to make sure this is in the archives! 

*"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." ~Rumi

*"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." ~Victor Hugo

*"In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." ~Kahlil Gilbran

*"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, Deep-burning and unquenchable." ~Bruce Lee

*"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism." ~Erich Fromm

*"Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.... And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love." ~Paul of Tarsus 

*"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." ~Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin

*"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." ~Washington Irwing

*"A kiss upon the hand of someone you truly love is more beautiful, and more valuable than any diamond or gem could ever be." ~Unknown

*"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other." ~Jubal Harshaw Robert Heinlein

*"A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he marries." ~Unknown

*"Be. Virtuous. Full of character. Present at all times. Visible, to those who know. Whole, Living in Spirit, Loving, and In Service. Friendships based in expansion and deepening of Spirit. For Love that has any other purpose ends, absent of anything real." ~Danielle Marie Crume

*"If there is righteousness in the heart there will be beauty in the character; If there is beauty in the character there will be harmony in the home; When there is harmony in the home there will be order in the nation; when there is order in the nation there will be peace in the world." ~Sai Baba

*"If you’re looking for friends when you need them…it’s too late." ~Mark Twain

*"Love is everywhere, it has no distance. All you have to do is stop the resistance." ~by Matt Zotti

*"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." ~Swedish proverb

*"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love." ~Sophocles

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

*"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." ~Greg Anderson

*"You know when you listen to music playing from another room? And you're singing along because it's a tune that you really love? When a door closes or a train passes by so you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway...then, no matter how much time passes, when you hear the music again, you're still in the exact same time with it. That's what love is like." ~Unknown

*"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." ~Mother Teresa

*“Speak no evil of an absent friend.” ~Titus Maccius Plautus

*“Those who say there’s no peace on Earth, I tell you you’d find if you search. Those who say there’s no joy on Earth, I tell you you’d find if you search. Don’t look around you. Look inside you.” ~Morgan Heritage

*"You can know happiness and peace within. Begin by recognizing yourself in everyone. Embrace each one and every one as you want to be received. Take the first step and trust that after that one the next will become clear…. Remember, you know it by heart." ~Aham Prema

*"All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, All I plead with you is this: Make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- Glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

*"The lack of light is designed to bring you to the realization that all the light you need can be found within. Walking for any prolonged period of time in darkness should bring us to the awareness that there is always Light, and it can always be found in our hearts. This is the essence of Self-realization." ~Stephanie Azaria

 अहम् प्रेमा

by Danielle Crume © 2009