Famous Love Quotes

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. - Ven Thich Nhat Hanh

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal. - Gary Zukav

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too. - Jake Steinfeld

When we extend ourselves to another human being in any way at all, when we positively touch the life of one person, we benefit the whole of humanity. - Gail Pursell Elliott

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. - Michael Bridge

When love is found, it is hard to forget where it is. - Amy Bowers

When life gets rocky, crumble away the burdens of lies, fear, and doubt. - Claire Charmont

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too. - Bayard Rustin

When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. - Adlai Ewing Stevenson

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them. - Jerome Klapka Jerome