Gerry Ellen brings us some of the most explosive love bombs, sure to remind you just how profoundly magical finding love, being love and accepting love is.

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And with every word, every feeling, every nuance of emotion, the ultimate response is one of love. Authors, from both today and yesterday, can craft the most awe-inspiring phrases that uplift and inspire in ways that go past any novel they have ever written. Oftentimes, a powerful quote is brought to the forefront; something that touches the heart with reckless abandon and sends the reader into a deep place of, “wow, this really gets to my soul.”

These authors bomb us with words that can slice to the core. Their hearts speak in volumes to what they believe, and we are the fortunate ones on the other end of their sentences and thoughts to be able to assimilate what the meaning is behind the artist who gave us the gift.

The upcoming quotes spoke to me. They shouted out and took me in. These authors have depth and wisdom and sparkles of magic in every word, and I recite my own response as to how it drums up the emotions inside of me. Can we say Venus retrograde? Yup, this is chosen timing for the cycle of the love planet, and is ever so magnified until the end of September.

Relax, take a deep breath, settle in and enjoy.

“If it is right, it happens—the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”  —John Steinbeck.

The heart knows, the soul recognizes, the flame remains ignited.

 

“In love there are two things-bodies and words.” —Joyce Carol Oates

Say it with meaning and show it with your actions.

 

“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for virtues, but despite the faults.” —William Faulkner

Not one single soul is perfect. If we can transcend the need to be perfect and to love someone who isn’t perfect, or our total opposite, this is the most harmonious way to love.

 

“It doesn’t matter who are you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” —Roald Dahl

We all need love. There isn’t any heart in this world who isn’t deserving of or worthy of love.

 

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” —Alice Walker

The more we worry about being in love, or having someone to love, the less love appears. Relax, trust and be open to what the universe has in store. It just might surprise you.

 

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect, and greet each other.” —Rainer Marie Rilke

When we come together from a place of our whole loving self, our responsibility is to compromise and partner in a way that is safe and secure. All the rest is just gravy.

 

“We love the things we love for what they are.” —Robert Frost

We accept everything about each other just as it is. We aren’t here to change our love for someone to feel wanted. We are here to rejoice in the beauty that brought us together.

 

“Love loves to love love.” —James Joyce

Deep, thoughtful, intimate and passionate; this is the makings of a giddy heart.

 

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.” —Henry Miller

When we drop our selfish desires to control another, we can begin with a true love of self then spread that energy outward to whomever and wherever we go.

 

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness; the truth more first than the sun, more last than stars.” —E.E. Cummings

Love is the eternal force that cannot be reckoned with in nature. Everything we see, touch, hear and feel are guided by the power of love.

 

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” —Henry David Thoreau

If we are feeling less than, or challenged, or under a wrath of negativity that has no end; we need to dig deep into our hearts and souls and purge more of the authentic love that has been, and always is, there since the day we were born.

 

“Love is a smoke and is made with fumes of sigh.”  —William Shakespeare

A heart on fire can melt a thousand miles of breaths. When we are in love, the body emits more happy molecules and sincere emotions of oneness.

 

“Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.” —Ray Bradbury

Be true to your word and your heart. If we write from a place of love, or speak from a place of love, or act from a place of love, the outcome will always produce a positive result.

 

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” —Charles Dickens

Authenticity with the highest of intentions for the good of all, this is the recipe for worldly knowledge and a greater capacity to exist.

 

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end.” —Madame De Stael

We were brought here to love, so we must continue to keep ourselves in that space.

 

These 15 quotes gave me such a pause, I hope they worm their way into your hearts as well. Love more, always.

 

[image: via Kate Ter Haar on flickr]