Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

One must learn to love oneself—thus I teach—with a whole and healthy love: that one may endure oneself and not go wandering about.

What do you love in others? My hopes.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

I teach you the friend in whom the world standeth complete, a capsule of the good—the creating friend, who hath always a complete world to bestow.

You must learn to love yourself with a healthy, wholehearted love, so that you can bear being with yourself and not need to roam.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not within the power of the will.

If you make love with the idea that you are performing an exercise, you spoil it. Love must be an overflow of joy.

Love is not something that is a duty. Love is an act of total, uncalculated delight.

To love someone is to grant them the space to be completely themselves.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy—these are undoubtedly great virtues. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, is within me?

What if I should discover that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness—that I myself am the enemy who must be loved?

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

We must be able to stand alone before we can truly stand together.

A relationship between two whole persons is infinitely richer than a fusion between two halves.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

A true friend is someone who desires what is good for his companion for his companion's sake.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one true friend.

True friendship requires time and familiarity; as the proverb says, people cannot know each other until they have eaten the proverbial salt together.

Shared joys are doubled, while shared griefs are halved.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake alone.

Friendship is an equality of loving, where each partner receives back what they bestow.

The presence of friends in misfortune is a complex thing; their sympathy relieves our grief, yet it pains us to see them grieving for our sake.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction.

When you help another, you are helping yourself.

Let your heart be as wide as the ocean.

The highest philosophy is found in everyday kindness.

The sun shines equally upon all; let your compassion do the same.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

The law of love governs the world as the law of gravitation governs matter.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

Generosity begins where calculation ends.

True friendship is a communion of pure souls.

Kindness is the universal language of the heart.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of quiet skies.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

We live in the world when we love it.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.

Tears are the nectar with which the soul waters its hidden blossoms.

Let your love surround your loved ones like sunlight giving them free space.

Let kindness be your signature upon every path you walk.

The soul yearns for the boundless, yet loves the intimate flower.

Speak the language of peace, and the universe will echo back.

A smile is the golden bridge between two estranged hearts.

Love is the nectar that turns the mortal into the immortal.

The heart is an endless spring; the more you give, the more it flows.

We find ourselves when we lose ourselves in love.

Relationship is the mirror in which you see yourself as you are.

To be vulnerable is to be truly alive.

When there is love, do what you will, for love has no conflict.

Where there is self-interest, there is no love.

True compassion has no motive.

Love has no boundaries and knows no pride.

Every relationship is an invitation to understand oneself.

Real love does not depend on being loved.

The heart that loves is never lonely.

True intelligence is the fragrance of love.

To love without possession is the supreme art.

Compassion is the highest flower of consciousness.

The mirror of relationship reveals all illusions.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world—above, below, and across—unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

A pure heart brings endless joy.

The noble person honors all living beings.

Cultivate boundless compassion in every breath.

Generosity of spirit is the true mark of wealth.

Forgive quickly and hold no resentment in your chest.

Dwell in kindness as your eternal dwelling place.

Live in peace with all living creatures on earth.

The awakened heart overflows with boundless goodwill.

The greatest strength is a mind devoid of malice.

Let compassion be the foundation of all your deeds.

True devotion is dissolving the separate self in love.

The heart knows no division.

Live in peace with yourself, and you live in peace with all.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Love is the universal solvent that dissolves all hatred.

The highest happiness comes from giving happiness to others.

The true yogi is one who sees the Divine in every creature.

Let your daily actions be guided by supreme love.

Radiate peace wherever you walk upon this earth.

True friendship is a divine bond that transcends lifetimes.

Love without condition is the highest spiritual attainment.

Let kindness be the atmosphere you create wherever you go.

Radiate the joy of the Spirit to all who cross your path.

Forgiveness is the supreme medicine for a wounded heart.

Where love dwells, fear cannot enter.

True friendship is a golden bridge between hearts.

Compassion is the divine fragrance of the enlightened heart.

Love is the divine power that unifies all divided existence.

The heart is the sanctuary where the divine friend awaits.

Love is the golden bridge that spans the abyss of mortality.

The soul knows no exhaustion when fueled by divine love.

Kindness is the divine perfume of a generous heart.

The divine play is revealed to the eye of love.

The heart that loves the divine is never weary.

True nobility is serving the divine in all creatures.

Love is the nectar that cures all human division.

Radiate the calm light of the spirit to all who suffer.

Step out of the prison of narrow self-interest into universal love.

True wealth is the capacity to help others in their hour of need.

True friendship is proven in the storm of adversity.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Speak low, if you speak love.

They do not love that do not show their love.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Where there is love there is life.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of quiet skies.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The entire cosmos is one single family.

Friendship with the righteous grows like the afternoon shadow, lengthening as the sun sets.

The moon does not withhold its cool radiance from the cottage of the outcast.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

A person is a person only through other persons.

When spider webs unite in harmony, they can tie up an elephant.

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

A single bracelet does not jingle; it takes two to make music.

Hold a true and faithful friend with both your hands.

A friend who stands with you during the dry drought is worth more than ten thousand who celebrate at the harvest feast.

He who desires to pluck the rose must learn to honor the thorn.

A guest is an angel sent directly from God.

The tongue of the heart speaks without alphabet, and is understood by every soul.

A single candle loses none of its brilliance by kindling the flame of another.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

It is in the shelter of each other that the people truly live.

Give a warm hearth and dry clothes to the weary traveler; winter is cold for everyone.

Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow.

Two travelers shorten the longest and roughest road.

The hearth fire warms the mortal body, but true friendship warms the soul.

A day of bitter sorrow feels like a century, but a day of shared love passes like a heartbeat.

The road to a true friend's house is never long, though the trail be steep and snowbound.

Laughter is the sweetest harp music that can ever echo across the hearth of an honest home.

Do not judge your neighbor until you have walked two full moons in their moccasins.

Listen with the ear of your heart, not just with the ear of your head.

Treat every elder as your own grandparent, every contemporary as your sibling, and every child as your own son or daughter.

May the stars carry your sadness away; may the flowers fill your heart with beauty; may hope forever wipe away your tears.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

To be in love is to be in paradise. To love without demanding anything in return is the greatest joy.

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

In love the other is important; in lust oneself is important.

Freedom is the highest value, and if love is not giving you freedom then it is not love. Freedom is the criteria.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being.

Love should be like breathing. It should just be a quality in you — wherever you are, with whomsoever you are, love goes on overflowing from you.

When two lovers meet, time stops. When two meditators meet, eternity begins.

Love is the fragrance of silence.

Love gives freedom. If it demands, it is only a business deal.

You can only give to others what you already have in abundance inside.

When you touch someone with love, you touch their eternal soul.

Compassion is the overflow of your own inner peace.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Love is a serious mental disease.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

The god of love lives in a state of need.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your soul.

Treat every person you encounter as a relative, bound to you by universal kinship.

Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.

If you wish to be loved, love.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

To lose a parent is to lose your past; to lose a friend is to lose your present.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a passion for love, you'll melt into the fire of the beloved.

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

When you seek love with all your heart, you shall find its echoes in every corner of creation.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

The quiet whisper of the rose touches the heart deeper than a trumpet.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Give up defining yourself. Let your identity dissolve in the beloved.

Grace comes to forgive, and then forgive again.

The heart is cooking fire, and the mind is cold ash.

Open your hands, if you want to be held.

Let the lover be scandalous, wild, and free. A sober person cannot comprehend this music.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.