Love

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
--I Corinthians 13:4-8

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love"
--unknown

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
--Leo Buscaglia

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
--Emmet Fox

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
--Henry Van Dyke

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
--Victor Hugo

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."
--D.H.Lawrence

"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"
--Einstein

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
--Einstein

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
--Einstein

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

Faults are thick where love is thin
--English Proverb

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
--Sophocles

"Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?"
--Cinderella

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."
--Jacques Benigne Bossuel

"'Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

"Who, being loved, is poor?"
--Oscar Wilde

"LOVE: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired."
--Mark Twain

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
--Voltaire

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
--Plato

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go"
--Herman Hesse

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst
--Unknown.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd
--Louis Aragon

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving
--Amy Carmichael

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild
Alexis Delp

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible
--Stan Mooneyham

Love is a friendship caught on fire
--Northern Exposure

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek
--French Proverb

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
--William Shakespeare

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven
--Karen Sunde

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And some people still wonder why some are afraid when they are told they are loved
--Unknown

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I knew no other way than this, where 'I' does not exist, nor 'you'. So close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep
--Pablo Neruda

Dance like no one's watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like no one's listening, live like it's heaven on earth
--William Purky

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you
--Roy Croft

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count
--Wolfman Jack Smith

Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me"
--Unknown

To love is to enjoy seeing, touching, and sensing with all the senses, as closely as possible, a lovable object which loves in return
De l'Amour Stendhal

Love simply cannot spring up without that self-surrender to each other. If either withholds the self, love cannot exist
Dr. E. Stanley Jones

The best proof of love is trust
Dr. Joyce Brothers

When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.
--Leo Buscaglia

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
--Robert Frost

True love stories never have endings.
--Unknown

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
--Tom Robbins

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
--Henry Van Dyke

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
--Voltaire

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
--Aristotle

Love is an energy - it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness...Love will never die.
--Bryce Courtney

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
--Erich Fromm

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
--Herman Hesse

The first duty of love is to listen.
--Paul Tillich

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
--Lao Tzo

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
--Hugh Prather

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.
--Ken Keyes

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.
--Ken Keyes

You can't force someone to love you; all you can do is become someone who can be loved; the rest is up to them.
--Unknown

A baby is born with the need to be loved-- and never outgrows it. Children are God's apostles, day by day sent forth to preach of love and hope and peace.
--James Russell Lowell

Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne

The greatest pleasure of life is love.
--William Temple

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
--Willa Cather

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
--Japanese Proverb

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
--Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
--Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.
--Unknown

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
--Kahlil Gibran

Love is too strong a word to say it too early, but it has too beautiful a meaning to say it too late.
--Kurt Spiteri Cornish

Lust is when you love what you see. Love is when you lust for what's inside.
--Renee Conkle

To fear love is to fear life.
--Betrand Russell

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
--Peter Ustinov

We should all be so lucky to have someone who will never let us go. The ultimate legacy is to leave behind someone who will love you forever.
--Ally McBeal

Fear? What is there to fear in love? Love is the very reason we live. To fear love is to lose all sense of living, and if we cannot love, then why have we been put here? Fearing love is like being afraid of breathing. It's not something to be scared of. It's so natural that no one can resist.
--Unknown

I love you, not because you are perfect, But because you are so perfect for me.
--Unknown

Couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
--Chinese Proverb

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
--Elizabeth Cameron

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
--Charles Morgan

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
--George Sands

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--H.L.Mencken

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
--St. Augustine

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
--Helen Keller

Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we're gone.
--Titanic Theme

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.
--Nathaniel Branden

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.
--Josh McDowell

Love is energy of life.
--Robert Browning

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
--Honore de Balzac

To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.
--John Gray, Ph.D

To love is to be vulnerable.
--C.S. Lewis

Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
--Unknown

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like a volcano and then subsides and when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part, because this is what love is. Love is not the breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promise of eternal passion, and it is not the desire to mate every minute or every second of the day. That is just being "in love" which any fool can do… Love itself is what's left over when being in love has burned away, and this both and art and a fortunate accident.
--Louis De Bernieres

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

When you are in love, life should not be measured by the moments of breath, but by the breath-taking moments.
Unknown

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
--Lord Byron

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
--Norman Maclean

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
--Pietro Aretino

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
--Duc de la Rochefoucauld

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
--Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
--Gilbert Chesterton

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one--neglect.
--James D. Bryden

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
--Vincent Van Gogh

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
--St. Theresa of Lisieux

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
--Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
--George Washington Carver

Love is the essence of God.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
--James Baldwin

Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely, willingly, and without expectation....We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
--Leo Buscaglia

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
--Robert Burton

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
--Pablo Picasso

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
--David Frost

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
--Simone Weil

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.
--Walter Lippmann

He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.
--J. Leclercq

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
--W. Somerset Maugham

We forgive to the extent that we love.
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
--Thomas Mann

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
--George Jean Nathan

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
--Henry Adams

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
--Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love is the beauty of the soul.
--St. Augustine

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.
--Bernard Iddings Bell

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
--St. Augustine

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
--Barbara de Angelis

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
--Honore de Balzac

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
--St. Augustine

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
--Mother Teresa

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
--Ivan Panin

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.
--I John 3:18

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
--Thoreau

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
--Sydney Smith

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
--John Lennon

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
--Kahlil Gibran

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
--W. Somerset Maugham

Joy is a net of love that captures souls.
--Mother Teresa

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
--Kahlil Gibran

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
--Emily Hilburn Sell

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
--Helen Keller

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
--Aristotle

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
--Thoreau

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
--Mother Theresa

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
--Francois Mocuriac

We forgive to the extent that we love.
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love endures when the lovers love many things together. And not merely each other.
--Walter Lippmann

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee The more I have, for both are infinite.
--Shakespeare

Remember who loved you first.
--Jesus Christ

There are three things that can never be hidden - love, a mountain, and one riding on a camel.
--Arab Proverb

He who finds not love finds nothing.
--Spanish Proverb

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
--Song of Solomon VIII,7 "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
--Joan Crawford