Ophelius & the Circle of Seven

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Love – THE FEELING – is a fruit of love, the verb.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

He’s out his head, I’m out my mind. We got that love, the crazy kind.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.

If you can’t hurt with me, don’t flirt with me.

My wish for us all is to love and adore ourselves just as much as we do everyone else!

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

I thought that true love was a just fairytale but I have it and it’s pretty amazing.