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Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know that it is always possible.
— Doug Pedersen, Tuna Breath: A 275-Pound Teenager's Coming of Age Story
When your defenses are down, it's alarming and beautiful - all that strength contained in a glass jar of innocence." He swallowed. "I've loved you since the moment you realized the astronomical odds of us meeting like that, because in that brief second, I watched you suddenly open your heart to the possibility of something magical happening - something unexpected.
— Lynda Meyers, Letters From the Ledge
Brendan stopped reading. The words had melted into a liquid blur...In his possession was a box full of information that would likely fill in the gaps and help him to wrap his brain around the whys of her death. And yet, there was really only one question that mattered, and Tommy had already answered it.
— Lynda Meyers, Letters From the Ledge
Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.
— C.Toni Graham
Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!
— Jamie McCall, Living the High Life Without Drinking the Champagne
The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.
— Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth
Finally... I'm here...
— K. Hari Kumar
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.
— Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
Like any author worth a shit - she parted with a piece of her soul.
— C.J. Roberts
We live in the information age and the sheer volume of it being available everywhere, creates a need for information that has value. Yes, we can look anything up on Google but who has the time? Can we trust that the information comes from a trustworthy source? Your experience has given you a deep knowing of your subject matter. You have insights and ideas that others may not figure out on their own. You are holding a roadmap that has great value to someone. What has been stopping you from sharing your knowledge? Perhaps you have been afraid to put yourself out there because of a fear of rejection? Let me get straight to the point. Get over it right now! Ponder the following quote for a moment and then move on with the decision to write rather than not to write, because not to write is not “to be”. You deny yourself and your audience. You have had an incredible journey to get to where you are and have amassed experience and knowledge. Now combine that with your unique voice and be heard. You are already an expert. Accept it.
— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing
Writing Cave means it's Coffee O'Clock...Who am I kidding? It's always Coffee O'Clock!
— Tammy-Louise Wilkins
I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth, when I saw what appeared to be the face of an angel sitting next to me. And, if it was in fact my actual guardian angel, then it probably would have been poor form not to offer a few chips to extend an olive branch.
— Phil Wohl, Death Made Me Famous
I hope you have a book telling others how you do what you do. If you answered no, then I challenge you to spend the next couple of hours reading this book and then, in the next ten days implementing what you’ve learned here. When you realize the value of the impact your book will make, your decision to write will be a no-brainer! Using this very simple, powerful system you will soon be thinking about your second book, and third book. You will want to recruit your spouse, children and parents to write. You will understand that everyone has a unique voice whose legacy is to be forever captured in print. They key is to begin. Dreaming about getting started is not going to make it happen. Action is everything so make a promise to yourself to commit and take action.
— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing
Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.
— Rayne Hall
All writing is rewriting.
— John Green
I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
— Julian Barnes
No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Someone described a writer's world as tormented, and I had to laugh.  A tormented writer?  I personally wouldn't have put those two words together.  Emotions have the power to torment a soul, yes, I agree to that.  But writers, through the formation of our characters, delve so often into the depths of a vast range of emotions that we earn the advantage.  For we've examined every little thrumming, fracture, spark, pang, and darkening of the heart to a point that we understand and appreciate the necessity and strength of emotions as well as the cause and effects manipulating them.  We understand.  We can imagine.  We sympathize.  Our knowledge is power over the torment of emotional ignorance.  I would suggest that those truly tormented are the readers of our works because those poor souls shall never know with such clarity and sentiment all the tiny little details that make our characters breath, move, and live before our very eyes.  Perhaps, if torment does lurk among writers, it comes simply through knowing more about an imagined friend than can ever be adequately expressed in words.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
If you're not writing, you're wronging.
— Kevin James Breaux
I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong
— Vicki M. Taylor, Forever Until We Meet
As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.
— Benjamin Bayani, The Nation
I am always positive, prosperous-minded and filled with self-confidence.
— LaNina King
Time is a funny thing, it can give and it can take away; and a single moment in time can truly change one’s life forever!  The best kind of love is unexpected, unexplainable, undeniable, and unimaginable.Your sweet scent will forever be with me, reminding me of the love we once shared. I will breathe in the memories until we meet again.Before you act on what you have been told, consider your source. It may simply be assumption on their part, and that can be far from fact.Why stand back and wait for someone to fail when you can stand up and offer your support?Love is when the sound of your partner’s snoring lulls you to sleep, and it acts as a reminder that they are there by your side.Building a wall around your heart is a voluntary imprisonment to which only you have the key. Open your heart to life’s possibilities!
— Donna L. Jones
Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
— Shandy L. Kurth
I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.
— Shandy L. Kurth
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.
— Steve López
Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge into an image or thought, and wording the thought, thus contributing all the activity of your mind to the immortal culture of humankind and subsequently to your own immortality.
— Lara Biyuts, Latent Prints
Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel. As a story teller I am trying to captivate the audience and allow them to feel just a small portion of the emotion I am desperately trying to preserve.
— Tommy Tran
There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen.  And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths.  Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.
— I.B. Opene, HOW TO SAY NO TO ANYTHING AND MEAN IT
The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.
— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
They fought because they loved the dance, and the weight of a sword in their hands. The clash and spark of metal and hiss of flame was like music written just for them. They fought for glory, but not for blood. They were Weirlind, heirs of the warrior's stone. And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.
— The Warrior Heir Cinda Williams Chima pg. 426
Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact.
— Saru Singhal
Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.
— Emily Hodson
Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!
— Saru Singhal
My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you've never seen it.
— Mike Duron
I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.
— Julian Darius, Nira/Sussa
In the Presence of Love...there are Miracles...Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle and wonders will never cease.
— Deborah Brooks
It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.
— Lara Biyuts, Forever Jocelyn
You know you're a writer when the words don't stop!
— Joyce Middleton
When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Unconditional love is hard to compete with.
— Abbi Glines, Because of Low
God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Love her but leave her wild.
— Atticus
No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don’t you dare ever allow them to hurt you.
— Beau Taplin
God has brought a very wise Japanese lady into my life who lives in Calif. We've never met, but she has shared a tremendous amount of wisdom with me concerning unconditional love within relationships. Here is one of the things she said to me this evening when we were discussing "Soul Mates.""Soul mates aren't perfect people. They can come into your life and provide polar emotional experiences from intense love to intense pain. Growth comes from both. And a soul mate helps you grow. It isn't just "...and they lived happily ever after" but "...and they lived!" ~ From my mentor ~ Lori Chidori Phillips
— Dianne Rosena Jones
If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional Love. ~~ Revathi Sankaran
— Revathi Sankaran
But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain
—  the second means love. That is a mother's love.
I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.
— Steve Goodier
Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
All you have to do is revise your point of view. Instead of trying to achieve perfection, simply relax and enjoy human imperfectability. With that perspective you achieve the ultimate godhead. You see man as infinite possibility always in the process of becoming. You see finally that man, in emulating the creative process, is nothing less than God.
— Robert H. Rimmer, That Girl from Boston
I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first. (Riley to her sister Alice about Paul)
— Ann Brashares, The Last Summer
She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair.
— Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
Feel within, the pure and unconditional Love and embrace all.
— Grigoris Deoudis
Learn to love people unconditionally. The light of love sees no walls.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.
— Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
You are my light in the darkness.
— Tina Carreiro, Covet the Moon
I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go to such trouble for fractious, ungrateful me.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
It's not easy, but do it anywayIt's not easy to love,when you get resentment in return.Love anyway...Its not easy to forgive,when you get hurt in return.Forgive anyway...It's not easy to be kind,when you get rudeness in return.Be kind anyway...It's not easy to empathise,when you are judged in return.Empathise anyway...It's not easy, but do it anyway...Let your light shine in the livesof those around you.And one day it will brightentheir hearts and overpowerthe darkness within.
— Henna Sohail
If we aren't willing to change, we aren't willing to unconditionally love.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.' A. W. Tozer wrote that, talking about how people project their opinions about God onto the world. He was asking those of us who believe in God- which is most of us - what God it is we believe in. Good question....we project onto God our worst attitudes and feelings about ourselves. As someone famously remarked, 'God made us in his own image and we have more than returned the compliment.' If we feel hatred for ourselves, it only makes sense that God hates us. Right?No, not so much.It's no good assuming God feels about us the way we feel about ourselves intensely and freely with complete wisdom and never-ending compassion. If the Christian story is true, the God who shows his love for us everywhere, in everything, expresses that love completely and finally in what Jesus did for us. Deal done -- can't add to, can't subtract from it. Any questions?"(pp. 20-21)
— Brennan Manning, Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You
Julian of Norwich...wrote: 'Some of us believe that God is almighty and can do everything; and that he is all-wise and may do everything; but that he is all-love and will do everything -- there we draw back. As I see it, this ignorance is the greatest of all hindrances to God's lovers.' Where do we thing we are going when we draw back fro
— Brennan Manning, Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You
[author quoting from his journal entry] "To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart and feel liked and accepted...not having to hide anymore and distract myself with books, television, movies, ice cream, shallow conversation...staying in the present moment and not escaping into the past or projecting into the future, alert and attentive to the now...feeling relaxed and not nervous or jittery...no need to impress or dazzle others or draw attention to myself...Unselfconscious, a new way of being with myself, a new way of being in the world...calm, unafraid, no anxiety about what's going to happen next...loved and valued...just being together as an end in itself." (p. 31)
— Brennan Manning, Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You
The deepest truth however is,  that no love begins unconditional,  but the only one that grows to be it, is the one that survives the breaking  of all conditions, yet standing tall.
— Drishti Bablani
Never forget, I love you just as much on your worst day as I do on your best day.
— Alex Shahla, Lying to Children
The more you share unconditionally what others most need, the more you will receive what you most want.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
About the subject of love. You know? People have it all wrong. It isn’t about What one can bring you, or do for you. Love isn’t about being even or keepingscore. It’s not even about respect…even respect; carries with it limitations. It is allabout inner strength. The inner strength to lose all pride and ego…and allow yourself to be completely, totally, and utterly…vulnerable. To allow the rippingapart, the bleeding, the complete shedding of one’s skin…so that you are availableto submit to your partner. Submitting…it’s not a weakness. It is the ultimate in strength. When one submits, they are saying;” I am imperfect, you are imperfect. Your imperfection is beautiful to me and I choose to only love you.” There is no greaterstrength. It is the ultimate in respect, reverence, adoration. There is no greater gift.
— Nicolenya Caltman "Nik"
There is no such thing as unconditional love," my mother told me. "I could stop loving you at any time.
— Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of
I'd rather have a life of chaos beside you than a life of quietude and stability without you...
— Catia M Rodrigues, Dubhán Reborn
I make one request:love me.Not convenient loveor conditional love.Rather the kind of lovewhere eyes meet& souls greet.Where the depthis unfathomable.
— Lindsay Lock, Musings
Dogs, on the other hand... dogs have pure souls. Look at me." I grab her chin and look straight into her eyes. "Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them. Especially you. Since the day I met you, you have done nothing but make my life better in every possible way. Do you understand?
— Steven Rowley
Is there anything God cannot do?Yes.God cannot learn, because he already knows everything and never learned what he knows.He cannot lie, because he is truth. God cannot reject anyone who has accepted his Son.Whether you accept or reject God, he cannot love you more, he cannot love you less, and he cannot stop loving you with all his heart.What a wonderful, limited God!
— Ron Brackin
For many, Mother's Day is a day about Showing Appreciation to your mom. But for some its also a day of REMEMBRANCE of that unconditional love that they had with them all these years but have lost now.
— KakkZ
I have always been their rock. A mother’s unconditional love is fervent enough to battle against the gates of hell, rise up from her knees and stand gallant, in spite of her gaping war wounds. If only they knew the battle fought and the flood of tearshed without having to endure such agony.
— Terry A. O'Neal
It's not easy, but do it anywayIt's not easy to love,when you get resentment in returnLove anyway.Its not easy to forgive,when you get hurt in returnForgive anyway.It's not easy to be kind,when you get rudeness in returnBe kind anyway.It's not easy to empathise,when you are judged in returnEmpathise anyway.It's not easy, but do it anyway...Let your light shine in the livesof those around you.And one day it will brightentheir hearts and overpowerthe darkness within.
— Henna Sohail
I love you, June, and you know how acutely, how desperately. You know that no one can say or do anything to shake my love. I have taken you into myself, whole. You need have no fear of being unmasked, only loved.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Puppies are a reflection of unconditional love, entrusted to us like precious seeds. We water them with praise, patience, and love, and watch them grow into full bloom.
— Leila Grandemange, A Story of a Promising Puppy
On Loving a Stranger:Perhaps trying, despite it seeming too idealistic - to apply a speck of your imagination and generate 10 background stories a day about the people you meet - is what could help to see that it might be in fact one of the important things in life to care for. I am fully aware of how unnatural the task and believing in it could seem but my own experience has brought me to a point where i could defend this idea (and not merely an idea but also a posture in practise) tirelessly. having experienced the exuberance and richness that can be ones personal gain from looking behind facades, showing love where it's hardest to do (and yes, it can be incredibly difficult), has taught me that the task could be an incipient of ones own integral transfiguration in addition to a gentle move towards another. Remembering how undeserving we ourselves often are of this kind of gentleness (yet very much in need of, no matter what we think of ourselves or the world) makes it easier to sacrifice the time and patience to think in a considerate manner of another, even a stranger. I see this as one of the channels into the more unfathomable depths of life: every human being (i like to think that even a fragment of them) is a new story with thousands of nuances told by life itself. To see, behind hideous apperances, another human that is not too much different from ourselves may open us up to a closer understanding of other people, ourselves, situations and then help as obtain resilience useful in debilitating times. Love itself, this way, can turn into an inner resource, a little sun somewhere between your ribs, and if needed into a form of true fruitful rebellion.
— Maria Urbel
Love is an unconditional commitment.. When someone unconditionally loves you it changes you.
— Kumar
When someone loves you for who you are (completely) without judgment, impossible conditions or pretense...your heart awakens, your soul comes alive, your senses are stimulated and you know true happiness.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Isn't unconditional love supposed to work both ways? How can we expect unconditional love for ourselves if we are not willing to grant others the same mercy?
— Christina Engela, Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else.
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Teddy taught me about kindness, about love that is unconditional; a sentiment not dependent on acceptance, approval, or the expectation of something in return. It was the first time I would ever feel this from a man who wasn’t my grandfather. And I didn’t know what to do with it at all. If only I’d embraced our differences sooner. I didn’t know it then, but we had so little time left.
— Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
I closed my eyes to hug him tighter and give him that elusive feeling of unconditional love and complete safety. The feeling we seek but, in this life and in this world, perhaps never quite find.
— Katherine Reay, Lizzy and Jane
Playmates share two gifts. You are loveable, and there is nothing to be afraid of.
— O. Fred Donaldson, Playing by Heart: The Vision and Practice of Belonging
Give as much you can possibly give, even if, or when, you do not receive. For the more you give, the more the heart gets 'bigger' and 'stronger'. So, never for one moment you hold back from giving, until the heart has nothing left to give again.
— Ufuoma Apoki
Some people are bringing the business tricks of scarcity mentality into God's mind. They will tell you that only a few will see God. Why? God's heart is infinitely huge, his arms infinitely large that all of us can have a place in him
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Don’t just love a person for the image, idea or concept of them, but love them for every fantastically weird and twisted details that makes them up.
— lauren klarfeld
It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her.
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Kalmar nodded. "I'm sorry, Papa. I wasn't strong enough.""None of us are, lad. Me least of all." Esben smiled and took a rattling breath. "But it's weakness that the Maker turns to strength. Your fur is why you alone loved a dying cloven. You alone in all the world knew my need and ministered to my wounds." Esben pulled Kalmar closer and kissed him on the head. "And in my weakness, I alone know your need. Hear me, son. I loved you when you were born. I loved you when I wept in the Deeps of Throg. I loved you even as you sang the song that broke you. And I love you now in the glory of your humility. You're more fit to be the king than I ever was. Do you understand?"Kalmar shook his head.Esben smiled and shuddered with pain. "A good answer, my boy. Then do you believe that I love you?""Yes, sir. I believe you." Kalmar buried his face in his father's fur."Remember that in the days to come. Nia, Janner, Leeli - help him to remember.
— Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows
You can know whatever it is that you need to know about anyone or anything or at any time, past or present, as long as you love them unconditionally.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
I HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE OR RECEIVE EXCEPT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.NOTHING COMES IN AND NOTHING GOES OUT EXCEPT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
Unconditional love is a gift of the heart. It’s a gift that we can both give and receive that comes with no strings attached, no qualifications, reservations, footnotes, asterisks, objections, judgments, or other kinds of fine print legalese that later have to be uncovered, argued over, or cried about.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
Unconditional love in any form is the greatest gift life can ever give you.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
Love is unconditional selflessness
— Jeremy Griffith, Freedom: The End of the Human Condition
You are always guided and protected, loved unconditionally and never alone.
— Catherine Carrigan, Unlimited Intuition NOW
Allow yourself to have a completely undefended experience of life, and allow the light of God to flow through your life freely, openly, and with renewed purpose. This is the essence of unconditional love.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
Unconditional love… It’s a sacred space, an energy. An eternal flow of all that we are.
— Camille Lucy, The (Real) Love Experiment: Explore Love, Relationships & the Self
The truth is you can learn to love unconditionally and, in the process, open up your own intuition to heights you may never before have deemed imaginable.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
When we allow ourselves to experience unconditional love in our lives, what we are able to know, see, feel, hear, and access is actually unlimited, unbounded by time.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
There is a field of unconditional love that surrounds all of us.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
Know that you are constantly surrounded by unconditional love.
— Catherine Carrigan, Unlimited Intuition NOW
When love comes, it comes indiscriminately.
— Lesley Lokko, Little White Lies
Once you know this kind of love, you will never question love again. You’ll know it when you see it. You’ll know it when you feel it. You will never be confused by something that is something else.
— Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
Across the board at the office there was a belief, an unproved theorem, about Coinman’s blind faith in Ratiram; that if one thought Coinman could willingly sip a cup of Botulinum if Ratiram wished so, it still underestimated the reverence that dwelt in Coinman’s heart for Ratiram.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Forget to smoke and drink alcohol. Start drinking the morning sunshine, pure breeze, and unconditional love. It is a much better way to get drunk.
— Debasish Mridha
Unconditional Love has conditions.
— Goitsemang Mvula
And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work.
— Dominic Riccitello
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
She looked at him for an age, and he read nothing short of love on her face. It warmed him to the core he'd thought dead, and scared the crap out of him.
— Dianna Hardy, Rise Of The Wolf
The love of God is not conditional, it does not depend on anything and it never ends.
— Sunday Adelaja
I love you unconditionally, his mom had said, once or twice, when he was younger. That’s how parents love. I love you no matter what. People said things like that, without thinking of potential nightmare scenarios or horrific conditions, the whole world changing and love slipping away. None of them ever dreamed love would be tested, and fail.
— Cassandra Clare, Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
We may have pets, but when it comes to unconditional love, they are the masters.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Love shouldn't come with conditions.
— Dannika Dark, Four Days
The love I have for you far exceeds all love I have given
— Christina Oldenburg
I will not give you up. You are my mate until I take my last breath, and I will follow you to the ends of the earth. You - you are the happiness I never knew i was missing, the heart I didn't know had never beaten.
— Lynn Hagen, Paine's Pleasure
Love without conditions.
— Seth Adam Smith
She didn't know if it was God. She wasn't really sure what to call it. She just knew she believe in unconditional love. And that was really all that mattered.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
A few years ago, she thought someone had finally come to love her and accepted her unconditionally, but she was wrong. You couldn’t really define love with money. It was more than that.
— Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight
Monogamous relationships can be based on fear: fear of losing my partner because he might fall in love with another woman, or fear that she may find a more secure man with a deeper purpose than my own to guide and protect her.“Nevertheless it also can be based on love where our commitment to open and be opened by one intimate partner becomes our way to express love for him or her, our children, friends, and ultimately the whole world and Source.
— Nityananda Das
When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
i loved her, for she was beauty dressed in a selfless personality and the skin of unconditional love. A voice of truthful melody and eyes holding a vision so large, maybe, just maybe she was born to change the world.
— Nikki Rowe
I've played Romeo for Juliet(But in depth)It's vignettes of silhouettes(And then read)And watched Russian roulette, yeah red SovietYet doing it simultaneouslyWhile dropping down shed oubliettesTurned around and took truth to the head thatLove is the ugliest thing too beautiful for death
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
When you judge someone, you are judging yourself. When you hate someone, you are hating yourself. When you love someone, you are loving yourself. Nobody will ever betray, humiliate or hurt you, if you have not first betrayed, humiliated or hurt yourself.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
Human Angels are souls who have chosen to be born now on this planet to awaken themselves and humanity to Unconditional Love and Awareness of the Oneness.
— Human Angels
Rules come from the mind and judgment.Values come from the heart,because of this,love has no rules,love only has values.
— Human Angels, 365 Wisdom Pills
I raise the energiesof the people around me:my presence radiatesunconditional loveand inner peace.
— Human Angels, 365 Mantras for today
Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
We lose in order to find. We forget in order to remember. We die a death in the ego in order to be reborn in the Oneness, until the end of all our duality, until we become Human Angels: aware, compassionate messengers of Love in service to the Oneness.
— Human Angels
The world is neither good nor bad.Don’t judge it, just love it.
— Human Angels, 365 Wisdom Pills
When we are prey to our fears, we have to remember that we are giving power to that which does not exist. And remember that the only reality is Unconditional Love: the eternal, immutable state of Being.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
God, no. I don’t want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself – it turns me on like nothing else.
— Dianna Hardy, The Spell of Summer
Few words have been misunderstood more than “love,” perhaps with the exception of “God
— Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.
— Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black
Stop telling me that love is blind. Love doesn't need to be blind
—  it is accepting. It can see everything and still be unconditionally strong. Love sees you and accepts you for who you are.
Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.
— Oliver Gaspirtz, A Treasury of Pet Humor
The new expanded spirituality is all inclusive. It is inclusive, because it comes from unconditional love. In the concept of unconditional love there is no exclusion. Everything and everyone is seen as a part of oneself.It is a beautiful spirituality as the one who lives by its principles cannot by definition be a part of any conflict.
— Raphael Zernoff
In order for love to be love, it must be chosen freely.
— Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
We are called to love - it is our home.
— Caroline A. Shearer, Love Like God: Embracing Unconditional Love
I was shocked at the revelation of her vaulting ambition, her greed. I should have loathed her or, knowing what kind of a person she was, I should have realized the futility of any personal attachment, the impossibility of its maturing into something warm, human enduring. By then, I had known a bit of the prostitute's psychology, the ruthlessness which marked her relationship with men,but I ignored these.
— F. Sionil José, Three Filipino Women
Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Her love... so unconditional, so unapologetic; reminds me that I am worth so much more than the standard I have set for myself.
— Steve Maraboli
Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.
— Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness
I knew that people said love should be unconditional, given like a dog gives to its master, but what Being could give that way? What could love though it had been kicked and beaten? What could go kissing the hand of its tormentor with upturned eyes? I didn't know. Perhaps Jesus, perhaps the Dalai Lama, but I couldn't. I had a condition, the way life has conditions to live, the body must have certain conditions to grow, and Cristien had to meet mine or I could not live. I could not.
— Candice Raquel Lee
Porn: the only unconditional love in the world.
— Carl-John X Veraja
I believe the higher power in the universe is compassionate, understanding, and all-knowing, and that there is nothing you can do that will change His love for you. I believe God’s love for you is infinite and absolute, and your value as an irreplaceable, unique, one-of-a-kind, divine soul is infinite and absolute too, because it is based in God’s love for you. Does this make sense to you, the way it does to me? I believe this is truth. I believe your value is not on the line; that your value is literally absolute and unchangeable. You have the same infinite value no matter what you do or don’t do. I believe you are a perfect and divine creation and as such your value is secure forever, no matter how many mistakes (driven by fear and misconception) you make down here. I believe God understands that your mistakes are part of your learning process. Mistakes teach you beautiful and important lessons. It makes no sense to condemn you for being lost, confused, scared and stupid down here, when for the most part we all are. We are doing the best we can with what we know, but we don’t know enough and are no where close to perfect. I believe God wants you to keep learning and growing, but that He loves you and accepts you as you are right now.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
Throughout the years, I have found people are confused about my love for both Christianity and Paganism. I tell them what was revealed to me while I lay sleeping in the hospital. The All, whether perceived as a God, or a Goddess, or as one being, or even as an energy field, cares only about one thing: Love. Absolute and unconditional love. --High Priestess Enoch
— Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft
Love will commit, or love will commit suicide.
— Anthony Liccione
Any time a stipulation on love is present, unconditional love is not.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
When someone wants to give you a “piece of their mind,” ask them to give you “peace from their heart” instead.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
If a dog can love us unconditionally, why can't we love each other in the same way?
— Carol McKibben, Luke's Tale
There is no fear in love. Live with the foundation of LOVE in your heart and you will become FEARLESS.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
A soul must gain wisdom by gathering information in whatever way works best. It is impossible to force wisdom on another, because each person has a choice to determine how and if it will be received.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Nothing had changed the love; sometimes suffocating, sometimes debilitating, sometimes so joyous and incredible, but always overwhelming and utterly amazing. The mad,mad love remained...
— Kahlen Aymes, A Love like This
When two or more hearts unite, anything is possible.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
It is all for naught, if not for love.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
I often talk about unconditional love towards others. But the truth is I have always looked for favorable conditions when it comes to self-love and happiness. Now that is what you call a true confession!
— Saurabh Sharma
I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.
— Tomaž Šalamun
God's love for others does not stop at the border
—  neither should ours.
Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.
— Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.
— Revathi Sankaran
A Spiritual Samaritan lives knowing that if we were to leave this world tomorrow, we were the best humans we could be and we touched the lives of as many souls as possible. We are not asked to be perfect. We are asked to make a difference.
— Molly Friedenfeld
When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.
— Victoria Alexander, Seduction of a Proper Gentleman
I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.
— Doug TenNapel, Ghostopolis
It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being. The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an exstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart. It is to realize that the whole Existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
I took a little walk outside for a while. I was surprised that I wasn't feeling what I thought people were supposed to feel under the circumstances. May be I was fooling myself. I wasn't delighted, but I didn't feel terribly upset, perhaps because we had known for a long time that it was going to happen.It's hard to explain. If a Martian(who, we'll imagine never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures-these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come--it would look to hi like a terrible problem of psychology to live under those circumstances, knowing that life is only temporary Well, we humans somehow figure out how to live despite this problem: we laugh, we joke, we live.The only difference for me and Arlene was, instead of fifty years, it was five years. It was only a quantitative difference--the psychological problem was just the same. The only way it would have become any different is if we had said to ourselves, "But those other people have it better, because they might live fifty years." But that's crazy. Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?"--all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life..We had a hell of good time together...
— Richard Feynman
Love only serves and does not calculate.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Love Katharine Hepburn. Her selfless love to Spencer, with little or no regard for her own needs, wants or care, bothers me. The book while interesting, was not what i expected, yet, the last chapter was the most disturbing, love knows no bounds, she had unconditional love for Spencer, it is a shame it was not reciprocated. she deserved so much more. but she did it out of love. how can you argue with that? i hope her free spirit is still surrounding all of us.
— Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
When we embrace every aspect of ourselves with unconditional love – we heal.
— Heidi DuPree, The Other Medicine That Really Works: How Energy Medicine Can Help You Heal in Body, Mind, and Spirit
Nurturing words show that you believe in the other party's capacity to learn, change and grow. One's mind is like a computer. Every message you send goes into one of two files: discounting or nurturing. The file with the most data will direct how one sees and feels about himself or herself. Messages that nurture are based on unconditional love which must be worked at, especially if you come from a discounting family. You will need to rely on Jesus to fill the void in your life with His presence and help you learn how to love unconditionall like He loves us.
— H. Norman Wright
Our deeds will not cause God to love us more
—  our sins will not cause God to love us less.
Love is not dependent on someone or something outside of you. One chooses to be Love in each moment as the moment unfolds, regardless of what happened in that moment.
— Cardwell C. Nuckols
If pure, eternal, unconditional Love is the foundation on which you stand, even if all else falls away, you are still valuable because you are loved.
— Amy Lichtenhan
There is nothing we could ever do to make God love us more
—  there is nothing we can do to make Him love us less.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
— Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
— Beverly Sills
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
— George Eliot
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
— Joss Whedon
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
— Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: Alone
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
— Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.
— Claire Cook, Seven Year Switch
If you work hard and study hard. And you fuck up. That's okay. If you fuck up and you fuck up, then you're a fuckup
— Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
— Bill Wilson
A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.
— Mark Twain