Quotes for a Loving Heart

Through the ages, many have tried to define that ethereal, magical notion of love. Mere words can seem inadequate, but often they're all we have to put voice to our deepest feelings and yearnings.

To turn your heart to thoughts of love, we've turned to some of the wisest spiritual teachers and gathered 10 quotes that celebrate love--in all of its beautiful complexity.

1. "You yourself, as much as anybody in the universe, deserve your love and affection."
The Buddha

2. "When two love each other, the very angels leave heaven to visit their home and sing for joy." Brahman proverb

3. "This world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are."
Swami Muktananda

4. "From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being."
Ba'al Shem Tov

5. "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." Rumi

6. "You may try a hundred things, but love alone will release you from yourself. So never flee from love--not even from love in an earthly guise--for it is a preparation for the supreme Truth." Yiddish Saying

7. "Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him." C.S. Lewis


8. "Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents; never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction."
Mahatma Ghandi

9. "If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love." Thich Nhat Hanh

10. "Bearing and nurturing, Creating but not owning, Giving without demanding,
Controlling without authority, This is love." Tao Te Ching, Chapter 10

12 Ways to Let Go of Past Loves

There are times that we ourselves cannot let go the past but we need to move on our lives and it is better for you. Here the ways to let go of the past loves.

1. Get Real About What Was
We can get relief from our nostalgia for a passionate love by remembering the intensity of the memory does not hold some great truth about the relationship’s sacredness. Remember, what fueled the attraction may not have been love, but your soul’s desire to heal the past.

2. Purge the Merge-Urge

3. Are You Romanticizing?
Brain scientists now recognize that nearly 20 percent of us suffer from “complicated grief.” According Rob Stein of the Washington Post, “One of the hallmarks of complicated grief is a persistent sense of longing for the lost one and a tendency to conjure up reveries of that person.”

4. There’s No Such Thing As One and Only

5. This Is Me, Free!
Visualize yourself as free without requiring that you know how that will be accomplished. Just imagine you have already arrived at a place in the future where you are. Imagine yourself saying to a friend, “Oh my gosh, I haven’t thought about x in years!” Absorb how fantastic you’ll feel, how happy and energized, and say thank you for that.

6. Your Brain Speaks Body Language
Your brain believes your body, sort of a reverse of the placebo affect. You begin to feel free of the past when you act free of the past!

7. Turn to Creativity
One of the best balms for emotional wounds is creativity, which is different from staying busy. Doing something creative, whether it is writing, drawing, composing lyrics, changing your hairstyle, planting a garden, thinking of a great gift, or redecorating a room, connects you to yourself and a power greater than yourself. Doing something kind for someone else is also a good idea but let’s face it, you can brood the entire time you are doing a good deed. Creativity is deeply engaging. It fills you from the inside out.

8. Read it Right

9. Exercise to Exorcise
Go to the gym regularly, or go for a run. Regular exercise keeps your endorphin levels high and keeps you from falling into melancholy memories. (This is a place where you can use music, upbeat and invigorating.)

10. Shut the Door on the Uninvited Guest
Practice separating your “self” from your “thoughts.” It does not matter whether or not your thought is “true.” It only matters whether the thought interferes with your happiness.

11. Disarm with Charm

12. Swap Melodrama for Goofy — Literally

13. Find Freedom Today

Happy New Year!

Hello to all my readers and visitors I am sorry if I did not update this blog all the time because I am busy with gother things especially I have also many blogs. To all droppers also I already exclude this blog of mine for so many reasons. One of this is I am tired and it takes many hours for me to finish dropping and I don't have enough time for my son. hope you will understand.Happy New Year and hope this year will bring us a most exciting experiences. May god bless us always.

Joy's Love Story

Hello everyone. Today our story is about Joy of Couple's Love Book in which she give me permission to post her love story in here. Thank you Joy for allowing me to share your love story to my dear readers. Enjoy reading everybody. Here is her story.

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

In year 2004, my ex-boyfriend saw my profile in one of the dating website, from there, he already fell at first sight with my photo as well as the section where I was looking for marriage and lifetime companion because that’s what he was looking for too. So, by then, he tried to email me twice, but I never received anything from him until he decided to send me a snail mail. From the moment we saw each other’s photos, we already knew that we like each other. Until we get into deeper relationship where we found out more about each other where our liking towards each other develops into love. I was kind a skeptical too since we never met in person yet and then we already saying, “I Love You’s” after we talked over the phone or when we wrote emails to each other which is sometimes made me to think about reasons of what if’s.

So, when we had a chance to finally meet each other in person that’s where I confirmed of how we really love each other and yes, WE’RE IN LOVE, and we show it to the world that we indeed in love by getting married and settle down after 5 months of getting to know each other. We are sort of in a rush at that time which seem like he make sure that I won't change my mind.

One more thing, every day, he always say he loves me, he even whispered the three words in my ear when he goes to work, early in the morning where sometimes, I pretend I was asleep. It is so sweet of him doing that every day. He only missed a few, if we had a misunderstanding and when I was fully awake and not asleep. He whispered once in my sleep that woke me up though and at that time we had an argument. It was touching that’s why if he made something that disappoints me, I always forgive him in the end.

What more could I say, I am in love and will always be…

Chris Love Story

Chris allow me to post her love story in here. Thank you Chris for this and I hope you enjoy reading others love story also. Dear readers enjoy also reading Chris love story and come back anytime to read more love stories. See you. Here is her story.....

After officially becoming a couple on March 2000, we already had our wedding/marriage in mind. We were serious and both coming from long relationships before, we were sure that we were meant to be husband and wife. It was not an easy road for us. My parents opposed our relationship and our plans to get married. I come from a pure Chinese family and they prefer that I get married to a fellow Chinese. My hubby is Filipino and though they dont know him yet, he was already pre-judged.

It was quite difficult as days go by. We were set to get married, knowing that it was God who led us together and in my heart, I KNEW that God had called me to become his wife. There was tension in my family and as the months passed by, the date we had set to get married was drawing nearer. It was 2 months before the date when my parents finally agreed to face him and had formal talks with him. The dinner went well and all they asked was to move the wedding for a few more months so we can prepare and since this was the first wedding in my family, they wanted to be involved. We agreed....So to cut the long story short, we had a short engagement. We loved each other and our story is not the usual mushy stuff... We got married 11 months after we became a couple with the blessing of my parents and God's provision.