Love is "warm tenderness of heart."
- St. Theophan the Recluse

"How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything."
- Eckhart Tolle 

"Ask to be the servant of the Lord, a vehicle of divine love, a channel of God's will. Ask for direction and divine assistance and surrender all personal will through devotion. Dedicate one's life to the service of God. Choose love and peace above all other options. Commit to the goal of unconditional love and compassion for all life in its expression and surrender all judgment to God."
- David R. Hawkins

Love, truth, and unselfishness are not merely moral figures of speech. They form our highest ideal, beacuse in them lies such a manifestation of power.
- Swami Vivekananda, in Vedanta Voice of Freedom, 154

"Feel from the heart...through the heart comes inspiration. Love opens the most impossible gates. Love is the gate to all the secrets of the universe...Do you feel that millions are starving? Does it makes you sleepless?"
- Swami Vivekananda, in Vedanta Voice of Freedom, 160

"What is the beauty in the human face, in the sky, in the stars, and in the moon? It is only the partial apprehension of the real, all-embracing Divine Beauty."
- Swami Vivekananda, in Vedanta Voice of Freedom, 191

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"What I am is what I have been grown by,
the sun, that great love, all the many small loves
and that one love too who waited so long to find me
and who has always walked by my side folding
my remembering hand in hers..."
- Excerpt of a poem by David Whyte

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

If for one slight moment you have the fortune to drown yourself in the ocean of love, do not hesitate.
- Hafiz

Love's most strange, most holy mystery -
We are intimate beyond belief.
- Rumi, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters p.59

Tonight
is the night.
It's the creation of that land of eternity.
It's not an ordinary night,
it's a wedding of those who seek Love.
Tonight, the bride and groom
speak in one tongue.
Tonight, the bridal chamber
is looking particularly bright.
- Rumi

If one loves someone because it gives pleasure, one should not be regarded as loving that person at all.  The love is, in reality, directed towards the pleasure. The source of the pleasure is the secondary object of attention, and it is perceived only because the perception of the pleasure is not well enough developed for the real feeling to be identified and described.
- Al-Ghazali, from Al-Ghazali's Path to Sufism: His Deliverance from Error and Five Key Texts

You are a Sufi when your heart is as soft and as warm as wool.
- Traditional, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters p. 10

...the way of seeing is Love...If you ever allow yourself to see, it will be the death of you. And that is why love is so terrifying, for to love is to see and to see is to die.
- Anthony de Mello, in The Way to Love (Image Pocket Classics)

A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love.
-'Abdu'l-Baha' 

Elevate your mind with love, and be aware all day long as you conquer anger and replace it with love.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org

Love is like the vast sky with no  boundaries.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org

Inspiration comes from love.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org

Unworthiness brings misconceptions of reality. Once you understand that you are loved completely, unworthiness begins to melt away.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org