What is love? We all have ideas about what love is and how we are supposed to give and receive it but have we really taken the time and thought about how we love? Poems are written about it, artists sing songs about it, movie plot lines revolve around finding and losing love – everyone has an opinion about love but most importantly, we all have experience the positive and negative aspects of being in love.
Here is the definition of love according to The Concise Oxford Dictionary (Ninth Edition):
- An intense feeling of deep affection or fondness for a person or thing; great liking.
- Sexual passion.
- Sexual relations.
- A beloved one; a familiar form of address regardless of affection.
We all know and understand that there are different types of love but the feelings associated with that love are very similar. Those feelings stir emotions and find their way to the deepest crevices of our minds and our hearts. Here are some powerful quotes surrounding love from people of all walks of life:
“The conclusion is always the same. Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy of the world.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
“New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.” –
Deepak Chopra
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine
“I love dogs. They live in the moment and don’t care about anything except affection and food. They’re loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.” – David Duchovny
“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.” – Paulo Coelho
“I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.” – Margaret Thatcher
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” – Desmond Tutu
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare
“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.” – Michelangelo
“Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.” – Maya Angelou
“When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the “Off to the Races” melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.” – Lana Del Rey
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.” – Madonna
“The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.” – Bob Marley
Every one of us has their own idea or concept of what love is but, there is no denying that we all feel the same way in terms of how the power of love affects us. The quotes above are perfect examples of how love differs in intensity based on what or who you are loving.
Together (and with love), we can make the world a more positive one!
COALITION OF POSITIVE ENERGY 