Real Love Quotes Quotes

Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got the message that asking for help is a sign of weakness. We often forget that we’re interdependent creatures whose very existence depends on the kindness of others, including—with a bow to Tennessee Williams—strangers.

~ Sharon Salzberg

In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The heart is a generous muscle.

~ Sharon Salzberg

These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.

~ Sharon Salzberg

By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.

~ Sharon Salzberg

To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.

~ Sharon Salzberg

There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.

~ Sharon Salzberg

No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It’s how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.

~ Sharon Salzberg

As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up to each of our innate capacities for love is merely to recognize that.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.

~ Sharon Salzberg

It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.

~ Sharon Salzberg

What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Dear men, I’ll make it clear to you. Those who tell you that ‘true love’ is never giving up someone you are in love with are insecure and competitive. Their description on love is based on their needs. Selfish needs. While women who are confident, their spirits fulfilled by themselves know that a 'good bye’ doesn’t mean they never loved you. They realizes that letting you go is what God needs them to do, because both happiness: yours and your lover require taking different journey for spiritual growth. These kind of women show you what 'real love’ is. And you don’t want to catch them still? Win a battle for them? Even after what you have learnt? For God’s sake, these women have endured much. For battles she fight alone, they deserve LOVE.

~ Ahimsa Murfi

No matter what we think we should do, I don’t think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor—or your boss—when you can’t stand him. But if you try to understand your feelings of dislike with mindfulness and compassion, being sure not to forget self-compassion, you create the possibility for change.

~ Sharon Salzberg

In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we’ve perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment, avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present, and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We must not just be recipients but givers! We must not just be keepers but donors! Giving brings relief and sharing enlightens the heart. Caring joins and showing love is life. It is never enough to acquire all acquisition. It is never enough to have all our ambitions. We must endeavor to give for giving out of a true heart is a true love and a true love is life.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.

~ Sharon Salzberg

If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

~ Sharon Salzberg

As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.

~ Sharon Salzberg

What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.

~ Sharon Salzberg