Affection as the essential principle of relatedness is of the greatest importance in all relationships in the world. For the union of heaven and earth is the origin of the whole of nature. Among human beings likewise, spontaneous affection is the all-inclusive principle of union.

I Ching

Driven by the force of love the fragments of the world seek each other that the world may come into being.

Teilhard De Chardin

For as all true lovers know, love is perfect kindness, which is born - there is no doubt - from the heart and eyes. The eyes make it blossom; the heart matures it: Love, which is the fruit of their very seed.

Guirant De Borneilh

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. If the individual is not sensitive, how can his love be sentient? If he is not profound, how can his love be deep? As one is, so is his love.

Jose Ortegay Gasset

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world;
a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Karla A. Menninger

Happiness and love are just a choice away.


Leo Buscaglia

To fear love is to fear life.


Bertrand Russell

To love means never to be afraid of the windstorms of life: Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are your simple presence can make others happy.

Jane Roberts

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

M. Scott Peck

You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

J. Krishnamurti

Your hearts know in silence
the secrets of the days and the nights.


Kahlil Gibran

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Lewis Thompson

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

William Wordsworth

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings...

John Keats

Why does a virtuous man take delight in landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

Kuo Hsi

People talk about the silence of nature, but of course there is no such thing. What they mean is that our voices are still, our noises absent.

Sue Halpern

We shall never be safe in the market place
unless we are at home in the desert.


Cardinal Basil Hume

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom. The water flows.

Li Po

For the Great Spirit is everywhere; he hears whatever is in our minds and hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

Black Elk

Learn to be silent.
Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.


Pythagoras

Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.


Zenrin Poem

And silence, like a poultice,
comes to heal the blows of sound.


Oliver Wendell Holmes

Silence is unceasing eloquence.
It is the best language.


Ramana Maharshi

Let us become silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson