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)