Every time you pretend to love, you impoverish yourself more and more. Love has great potential to enrich your life. But if you are just playing a role, pretending to love, it's only going to poison you. Because you are teaching yourself that it's just a game, and slowly but surely you will lose the capacity to open in love.

Joy will come when you pass on the love you have received. If you hoard love, it melts away. If you lock love, it breaks free. If you grab on to love, you end up holding an illusion. When you let love flower in its own way, it stays to support you. When you pass on love, it multiplies beyond measure.

Love is the way.

In this world hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is God's law. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?

"The greatest poverty of all is the absence of love.

Why choose to be poor when love is abundant?"

‎"If the house of the world is dark,

Love will find a way to create windows."

~ Rumi

Everyone is looking for love, but the blessed ones do the opposite.   
Blessed are those looking to give love. Right now think of three simple ways you can give love and be blessed.

All men and women are connected by an energy which many people call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated. - Coelho

Love has already found you.
So much time has been spent trying to make yourself lovable. Trying to make yourself more attractive, more interesting. But love has already found you, perfect and pure love. Rest assured that God loves you just the way you are.

To love God you must have an attitude of love.
An attitude of receptivity and warmth and readiness to receive God's grace. An attitude of giving and generosity and not-holding-back to let God's grace flow through you and on into the world. You know you love God when you feel love flowing through you.

You can't walk in love for free… it costs something. - Joyce Meyer

Love is the blood of the soul. God wants all beings to have healthy and strong souls, so God created a simple law to nourish the soul: the more you give love, the more you receive love. Remember all the beings you love - people, animals - that you haven't thought of lately. Do not wait anymore, reconnect with them today and express your love.

Understanding comes from love.
You might believe that you need to understand another to love them. The truth is you need to love them to understand them.

It's important to appreciate and respect the young ones.
Let them feel your love. These children and young people will inherit our earth, and as they have been treated, so will they treat others.

‎"Iubirea nu trebuie să fie neapărat perfectă, dar trebuie să fie neapărat adevărată."

There is no such thing as conditional love.
Love is either unconditional or it's no love. You might like someone conditional on their personality or behavior or circumstances. But love accepts no boundaries. So never say 'I love you because', for love has no cause, love comes from God.

There is no such thing as conditional love.
Love is either unconditional or it's no love. You might like someone conditional on their personality or behavior or circumstances. But love accepts no boundaries. So never say 'I love you because', for love has no cause, love comes from God.  - Coelho

Iubirea nu caută să găsească o persoană perfectă, ci caută să iubească perfect o persoană imperfectă.

"Singurul lucru pe care îl posedăm este iubirea pe care o dăruim."

“We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures. We are the sum of the Father’s love for us. No matter what has happened, you still have yourself to give. You are still God’s unique creation, made by love and for love.” John Paul II

Sufletul meu este în întuneric, dar sunt fericită. O, da, sunt foarte fericită fiindcă nu sunt consolată, ar trebui să mă ruşinez dacă iubirea mea ar fi asemănătoare cu cea a logodnicelor pământeşti, care se uită mereu la mâna logodnicului, de la care aşteaptă să le aducă ceva, sau urmăresc pe faţa lui zâmbetul de iubire. Tereza, mica logodnică a lui Iisus, îl iubeşte pe Iisus pentru El însuşi. 

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