Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"There are lovers content with eyeing each other across the street, but you are not such a lover."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"I am so small I can barely be seen. How can this great love fit inside me?"
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there is another way: a breath of love."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Let yourself be loved by the One who knows you best."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Love is not an emotion. Love is your very existence."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The words I love most in life are the same now as they were when I was a child: love, connection, and home."
Hafiz
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"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
Hafiz
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"Love is the only reality and it is not a concept."
Hafiz
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"Hafiz is a slave to love, and love is a stranger to the world."
Hafiz
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"Love is the bridge between you and everything."
Hafiz
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"The angel of love carries my name in its bell and announces my arrival to all the glad spirits."
Hafiz
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"All this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky."
Hafiz
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"The moment I heard my first love story I started looking for you."
Hafiz
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"The Beloved is all that matters."
Hafiz
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"What greater thing is there for two human souls to realize than they are joined for life."
Hafiz
"Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven to earth come down."
Charles Wesley
"Love is the law written upon the human heart by the hand of grace."
Charles Wesley
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"The lover and the beloved are one; separation is illusion."
Ibn Arabi
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"Love is the bridge between the human and the divine."
Ibn Arabi
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"Love is the alchemical force that transforms all things."
Ibn Arabi
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"Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love."
Spinoza
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"Love is joy accompanied by the idea of an external cause."
Spinoza
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"To love another is to increase one's own power of thinking and acting."
Spinoza
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"Love was his meaning."
Julian of Norwich
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"In our sensuality God is with us, embracing and cherishing us."
Julian of Norwich
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"All love is his making."
Julian of Norwich
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"I understood three things in this revelation. First, the instrument of our salvation is love."
Julian of Norwich