Thoughts for Today......LOVE

Everyone from Lao Tzu, to Plato, to Longfellow wrote about LOVE. The strength of the emotion, depth of it's passion and it's ability to transform are just a few examples of the variety of quotes that follow. The common thread sown throughout every culture and time is the knowledge that LOVE is one of the most fundamental things all living creatures need to thrive.
I hope you enjoy the different quotes as well as a couple of pictures of flowers from my "natural light series" (Please contact me with any questions about the pictures). If you have a favorite quote please share it by posting it in the comment section!

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Gandhi

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu

Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.
Omaha (Native American)

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where there is love there is life.
Gandhi

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Arapaho (Native American)

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Voltaire

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Michael Jackson

Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We always return to our first loves.
Tribe Unknown

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Gandhi

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Michael Jackson

Peace, Light and Take Care!