11.20.2013

Wisdom Wednesday: Love

Happy Wednesday! With Wednesday comes the inevitable "hump day" blues, sense of disillusionment, exhaustion, and longing for the weekend. Like a good shot of espresso, an inspiring quote can often inspire and perk me up, ready to take on what the rest of the day and week holds. Each Wednesday here on notsosimplestyle features a few bits of wisdom on varying topics, in the hopes you may find humor, inspiration, solace and affirmation.

Perhaps a cliché topic, love has been mused upon, dissected, and ultimately declared impossible to understand by the wisest of the ages. Yet, love's presence in life is undeniable. Regardless of the mystery involved, people continue to write, sing, act out love. While ten quotes hardly scratches the surface, at least it shines a light on the ever-changing face of love.


I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
                       ~ Mother Teresa


Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
                       ~ Barbara de Angelis


If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
                       ~ Christopher Morley


Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
                        ~ La Rochefoucauld


Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
                        ~ Rainer Maria Rilke


Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
                         ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
                         ~ Leo Buscaglia


Love is metaphysical gravity.
                         ~ R. Buckminster Fuller


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
                          ~ Henry Van Dyke


unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home…lovers alone wear sunlight.
                       ~ e. e. cummings