Quotes from Katherine Woodward Thomas

We will prepare ourselves for love by opening our hearts to those in our lives at a whole new level, exploring and expanding our capacity for healthy interdependence

Make room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and he will find his way there. —Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth

As author Daphne Rose Kingma says, "Love is trying to find us." Love is insisting that we up the ante. Love works these days only when entered into for loving reasons—to extend and expand, to give and to grow, to bless and be blessed.

Human beings are not meant to live in isolation. We are here to have relationships.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thought. With our thoughts we make the world. —The Dhammapada

It's easy to enjoy each other while on a vacation in Maui. The key is to find someone you can have fun with during the six-hour flight over there. —Tom Arnold

If you don't like being a doormat, then get off the floor. AL-ANON

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. —Albert Einstein

Most of us are living as though life were happening to us rather than through us. We are not present to the fact that we are constantly generating our lives, as though they were great works of art. The tools we are given from which to create are our thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, actions, decisions, and words. Love is letting go of fear. —Gerald Jampolsky

And you don't have to be perfect before, during, or after doing this course. Just stay authentic and risk telling the truth—first to yourself and then to others, because that's where the healing happens.

So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful. ETTY HILLESUM

Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself. —Marianne Williamson, Healing the Soul

The truth is, we simply cannot continue to invest our energies in our neuroses, our dramas, our resentments, and our fears and think that we are a space for love.

Love is the wrecking ball that is pulverizing every relationship of record that isn't wide enough or brave enough to let real love in. —Daphne Rose Kingma

Whenever you are pointing your finger at someone, notice that there are always three fingers pointing back at you. —Anonymous

Anger begs us to make a powerful commitment to what we will or will not tolerate in our lives any longer, making it our best friend if we can turn it in the right direction.

My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. —Kahlil Gibran

For love, by definition, happens when it is safe to be flawed in the presence of another. Think

We are never lonely because we have lost contact with others. We are lonely because we have lost contact with ourselves.

When human relationships fail . . . they fail because they were entered into for the wrong reason. —Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, Book 1

Soulful marriages are often odd on the surface. —Thomas Moore