Love Quotes

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"You have within you more love than you could ever understand."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"I want the sky to crack open with the face of my Beloved."
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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"The lover's cause is separate from all other causes and is elevated above them."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"In your light, I learn how to love."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The Beloved is all; the lover only veils the Beloved."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Love is the way I travel."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The desire to love is better than the desire to achieve."
Hafiz
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"Love is the bridge between you and everything."
Hafiz
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"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself."
Hafiz
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"The bird of my soul has nested in your heart."
Hafiz
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"My heart burns with your remembrance all day and night."
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"The secret of love is that it requires vulnerability and courage."
Hafiz
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"The lover is without a name, without a religion, without a creed."
Hafiz
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"The question is not whether you are loved. It is whether you have loved."
Hafiz
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"The lover drinks poison and calls it wine."
Hafiz
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"What is the greatest love? It is the love that asks nothing in return."
Hafiz
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"I am a madman wandering the streets of love."
Hafiz
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"The lover carries the weight of the world and calls it light."
Hafiz
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"Love is not a feeling. It is a commitment of the soul."
Hafiz
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"The lover and the beloved are ultimately one."
Hafiz
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"Progress in the spiritual life does not consist in sweetness and tears, but in love for God and neighbor."
Teresa of Avila
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"The measure of love is not found in grand gestures, but in consistent presence."
Teresa of Avila
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"The heart speaks a language the mind cannot fully comprehend."
Teresa of Avila
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"Love without action is merely sentiment."
Teresa of Avila
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"Jealousy is sadness mixed with the idea of something we love."
Spinoza
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"Love of anything external to ourselves is unstable, for all external things are impermanent."
Spinoza
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"The preservation of one's being is the first law of love."
Spinoza