"We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience." — Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)"

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth,"You owe me."Look what happens with a love like that.It lights the whole sky." 

-Hafiz

"Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." 
— A.A. Milne

There is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts toward others are attacks on ourselves. - Marianne Williamson

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
~ Hans Nouwens

"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever."  
-Author unknown 

Where there is love there is life.
-Mahatma Gandhi 

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
-Mahatma Gandhi 

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli 

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes other feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
-Dalai Lama 

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
-Dalai Lama 

Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. They you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
-Alan Cohen 

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
-Judy Collins 

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
-Julia Cameron 

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

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. 
-Richard Bach

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

- Denis Waitley

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." 

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

"Home is where they love you."
-Seen on a wooden sign in someone's home