Quotes About Love

Without question, the most important practice is bodhichitta. The wish to attain enlightenment to lead all living beings to that same state... This mind of enlightenment is based on pure, great compassion, which in turn is based on pure, great love. In each case pure means impartial. Without conditions. And great means benefiting all living beings, not just the small group of those we happen to like at the moment.

May all beings have happiness and the true causes of happiness;

May all beings be free from suffering and the true causes of suffering;

love and compassion—the true causes of happiness.

Yes, dear reader, that's the other reason we cats purr. Arguably, it's the most important reason: to make you happy. Purring is our V—our way of reminding you that you are loved and special, and that you should never forget how we feel about you, especially when you're vulnerable.

Attachment is when we believe that a person, a thing or an outcome is necessary for our happiness

the bond of blood. How strong it is, and how it has the power to reach across oceans.

we define love as 'the wish to give happiness to others.' If we practice love, then compassion arises quite naturally, for it is 'the wish to free others from suffering.

doing small acts with great love is our most precious gift, and not only for those we are helping. It is a wonderful paradox that when we help others, we, ourselves, are the first to benefit.

It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, Even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, Even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, Even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.

As long as we kept on practicing loving kindness and creating the grounds for positive future outcomes, we need have no fear of what might arise.

It is said that each one of us has been a mother to every other living being, at some time in the past," he gazed at me with open-hearted benevolence. "Imagine, little Snow Lion, if we could all feel that connection, as if it were real?

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

Sometimes, Stuart love, the cost of living is too high a price to pay.

Go with all the Gods in your pockets, and my heart in your hand," he whispered, breathing

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me?