Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. Love all men, love everything. Seek that rapture and ecstasy. Water the earth with the tears of your joy and love those tears. … ‘What is hell?’ I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880, trans. Constance Garnett (via proustitute)
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.Audrey Niffenegger (via cavesoflilith)(Source: misswallflower, via kallixti)
The strongest love, the freest love, the most powerful love, is love of non-attachment: accepting someone unconditionally. This is also the most challenging.Steven Smith
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness… the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
Forgiveness is the final form of love.Reinhold Niebuhr
Love is a fire and I am wood.Rumi
Love is not a doctrine. Peace is not an international agreement. Love and Peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.Mary Caroline Richards, (Centering, 1964)
We confuse attachment with love. Attachment is concerned with my needs, my happiness, while love is an unselfish attitude concerned with the needs and happiness of others. Most of the time our love is mixed with attachment because we do not feel secure on our own, and try to find wholeness through another. We become dependent on the good feelings and comfort of the relationship and then suffer when it changes. A relationship free of unrealistic grasping is free of disappointment, conflict, jealousy, and other problems, and is fertile ground for the love of growth and wisdom.Kathleen McDonald
When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.Will O’Brien
