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Love QuotesPerhaps this quote on love from Dr. David Simon gives us an indication as to why our desire for love is so strong... "Separation from God is difficult. Our bodies, hearts, minds and souls long for reunification. This is the essence of love." Love quotes can inspire us to seek and find love, or overcome past failures and continue in our search for love. They can also remind us to remove our barriers and love better or more completely... "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." Love itself, when embraced, is boundary expanding by nature. It is therefore naturally self-improving. Love quotes, when shared, can deepen our connection to someone that we love. This alone is reason enough to choose a few favorite love quotes and read them or repeat them every day. As you know, love quotes, poems, and sayings have been used for countless years by would be lovers to feed the fires of passion and romance. Love quotes, when offered to one who is the object of your love act as an incentive to continue the deepening of intimacy between two people... this inspiration can lead to an upward spiral of heightened closeness. Some people take a rather fatalistic view of love, and of life in general... if romantic love is going to happen between two people, then it's going to happen. This has been shown to be the case many times over. In fact, many people have fallen in love who never thought they would, and with quite unlikely suspects at times. Others keep searching for that "perfect lover." The person that they can call "the one." This sometimes can be frustrating if unrealistic expectations are at the heart of the search! Still others people believe in a soul mate concept. Essentially, that would mean that there is one person out there that is the love that is "meant to be" for them and lasts forever. A friend of mine told me the other day about a friend of her's who married her soul mate. It ended in divorce. I suspect that a number of people who married the person they thought was their soul mate, only to have it end in divorce, might have some commentary! Many people seem to be searching for near perfection when they are looking for a life partner. The reality is that you will probably never find another person who is "perfect" for you. If you feel you have, then you are probably simply overlooking a number of faults or incompatibilities and choose not ot focus on them. Ah... love is blind! If you are wrestling with this concept, and need some inspiration, then I suggest that you ponder this... "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." Author Tom Robbins expressed an interesting view in one of his love quotes without addressing the soul mate concept directly... "The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." An interesting quote from top life coach Talane Miedaner expands on that notion. In her book, Coach Yourself to Success: 101 Tips form a Personal Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life, tip number 79 is... "Stop Trying to Change People." She gives a great example of a client that she worked with, and then offers this bit of advice... "You want people to love you just the way you are, so be a sport and love other people just the way they are. In fact, see if you can't find their faults adorable." If friendship is the basis for love, and I believe it should be, then this quite famous quote is exactly on point... "Love is friendship set on fire." A few hundred years later, people still don't seem to get that! Just like giving gifts, love is a selfish thing. Love is for the benefit of the one who loves, not the one who is loved... "What a grand thing, to be loved!What a grander thing still, to love!" "And when you stop and think about it,You wont believe its true,That all the love you've been giving,Has all been meant for you." Love itself is totally self-contained. It needs nothing else, wants nothing else, but itself. Love is a mirror of its own existence... "Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself." More love quotes can be found
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