The heart is not living until it has experienced pain.

The pain of love breaks open the heart,

even if it is as hard as a rock.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

In reality the greatest miracle of Christ that any wise man can see is the miracle of Christ's living heart; not wonderworking, but the living God presented to the world; it was the lighted faith which helped the darkness to vanish, not dogmas, or doctrines, or theories; all that came afterwards. He went to fishermen and said to them, 'Come hither, I will make you fishers of men'. What does it mean? Does 'fishers of men' mean fishers of money? No, he meant by this: Let love be alive in your hearts, that the whole world may become your customers.

Grandfather, 

Look at our brokenness. 

We know that in all creation 

Only the human family has strayed from the Sacred Way. 

We know that we are the ones who are divided. 

And we are the ones who must come back together, 

To walk in the Sacred Way. 

Grandfather, 

O Sacred One, 

Teach us love, compassion and honor 

That we may heal the earth 

And heal each other.

Ojibway Prayer

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...

They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."

Of course," I answered."

And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.” 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

If you want the secret vision,

then close your eyes.

If you wish an embrace

Open your heart.

Rumi

Life is love, dearest. 

All else is imagined confusion.

Byron Katie

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them the more you will establish good in yourself.

Paramahansa Yogananda

You are here not to grab all you can, but to give all you are.

Ralph Marston

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

Cheryl Strayed

Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

Cheryl Strayed

The bank of Love is never bankrupt.

Steve Maraboli

The heart is your student for love is the only way we learn.

Rumi

There is little one can say about love. 

It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

 Rumi