We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. A little parenthesis in eternity.
--Paulo Coelho (in Love Letters to Presence: Three Poems)

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. --bell hooks (in The Wide-Angle Legacy & Vision of bell hooks)

Whenever domination is present love is lacking. --bell hooks (in bell hooks: A Revolutionary Who Led With Love)

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Thich Nhat Hanh: Ten Love Letters to the Earth)

May we find our foundation in the work of Love; demanding, tiring, true and human and holy. --Padraig O Tuama (in This Fantastic Argument of Being Alive)

A garden is a way that the land says, "I love you."...Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking. --Robin Wall Kimmerer (in On the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Gardening)

Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things --Lao Tzu (in Transforming Apocalypse Fatigue into Action)

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. --Walt Whitman (in When I Die Recompose Me)

We are all one question and the best answer seems to be love--a connection between things. --Mary Ruefle (in Mary Ruefle's Stunning Color Spectrum of Sadnesses)

Love is the cause of unity in all things. --Aristotle (in We the People)

We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Soul of Medicine)

Wisdom is dangerous. Love and beauty are too. Our culture has kept us away from them, and must do so to perpetuate the insanity we see all around us. --Nikos Patedakis (in Horse Medicine, Horse Mystery)

Our lives are not problems to be solved. We can have meaning and beauty and love, but nothing even close to resolution. --Kate Bowler (in Everything Happens for A Reason & Other Lies I've Loved)

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

--Peace Pilgrim (in Alison Thompson Responds with Heart)

What gives me hope is that life unfailingly responds to the advances of love. --Nipun Mehta (in Nipun Mehta: A Deeper Thanksgiving)

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
--Ben Okri (in The Best Greater Good Articles of 2022)

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. --Khalil GIbran (in Bicycling Around the World for Love)

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples. --June Jordan (in June Jordan's Legacy of Solidarity & Love)

And our inexplicable love for this world, our delight and grief -- what is that but the Cosmos loving itself, delighting in itself, grieving for itself? --David Hinton (in An Ethics of Wild Mind)

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind. --Henri Frederic Amiel (in Say Wow: A Conversation with Poet Chelan Harkin)

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

--Wendell Berry (in The Red Dress)

I love a broad margin to my life. --Henry David Thoreau (in A Broad Margin)

I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries, to love you, to nourish you. Oh sweet bitterness, I will soothe you and heal you. I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns. --Rumi, translation Fereydoun Kia (in Ode to an Ugly Cat)

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. --Zora Neale Hurston (in Lost Together)

Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. --Elizabeth Alexander (in Elizabeth Alexander: Light of the World)

I would say love is focused attention with benevolent intent. -- J. Drew Lanham (in Look Closely or You'll Miss It)

Compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got --Cheryl Strayed (in The Yellow Umbrella)

Love is the force behind every level of existence. --Kabir Helminksi (in Kabir Helminksi: Rumi & the Mysterion)

Grief is the language that love speaks after loss --John Mark Green (in Griefhouse)

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. --Hippocrates (in Could Creativity Transform Medicine?)

We must never give up our love for the world. --Rt. Rev. Marc Andrus (in Light & Danger Through the Crack in the Door)

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. --Henry Van Dyke (in Power of Slow Change)

One of the things that really amazed me is how the love of this craft, a way of expressing something of oneself, eclipsed the fear. --Dennis Ludlow (in 'Doctor, Doctor, I Declare': Dennis Ludlow in Conversation)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Teresa (in How Sisterly Love Transformed a Brothel in Delhi)

We bring [people] into our home. We cook them warm meals with vegetables that we've grown on sacred land... And we love them. And we share vulnerably about what we care about together. --Xue Devand (in From Snow to Water)

Real power is usually unspectacular, a simple setting aside of fear that allows the free flow of love. But it changes everything. --Martha Beck (in Standing in Authentic Power)

If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here? --Raffi (in The Whisper of Reverence)

Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond. --Robin Wall Kimmerer (in Saying Goodbye to the Tree that Changed my Life)

We belong to each other. We are sister and brother. Born to love one another. --Garth Brooks (in Do You Find Belonging in Groups or Communities?)

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. --Maya Angelou (in Ice Cream Aunties Bring Joy and Healing)

Words are windows, or they're walls, They sentence us, or set us free. When I speak and when I hear, Let the love light shine through me. --Ruth Bebermeyer (in How To Turn Down The Tension in a Conversation)

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship, or family, or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. --Maria Popova (in What Does Love Mean? How 4-8 Year-Old Kids Describe Love)