Ajahn Brahm

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

If you wanna break these walls down, you’re gonna get bruised.

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

I’m searching for something that I can’t reach.

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

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.

Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

When she laughed she was beautiful, when she cried she was beautiful, but, when she was determined she was sexy as hell.

I’m bad at love, but you can’t blame me for tryin’.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Love is the absence of judgment.