When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy, where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now your are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.”

— John O’Donohue

“Ask the friend for love… ask him again…For I have found that every heart will find what it prays for most.”

— Hafiz

“It’s here in all the pieces of my shame
That now I find myself again.
I yearn to belong to something, to be contained
In an all-embracing mind that sees me…

— Rainer Maria Rilke