"aStiG itS abOut LOVE"

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude.It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd....Louis Aragon.
Do you want to know a good way to fall in love?Just associate all your pleasant experiences with someone,and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones....Richard Bandler.
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.
People love others not for who they are,but for how they make them feel....Irwin Federman.
Love is like pi -- natural, irrational,and very important....Lisa Hoffman.
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 kissesand one who offers the cheek....French Proverb.
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 afraidwhen they are told they are loved....Unknown.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.I love you straightforwardly, without complexitiesor pride; so I love you because I knew no otherway than this, where 'I' does not exist, nor 'you'.So close that your hand on my chest is my hand, soclose that your eyes close as I fall asleep....Pablo Neruda.
He drew a circle to shut me out, heretic rebel,a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win,we drew a circle that took him in....Edwin Markham.
In real love you want the other person's good.In romantic love, you want the other person....Margaret Anderson.
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" withoutdestroying a "me"....Unknown.
Love grows by giving. The love we give awayis the only love we keep. The only way toretain love is to give it away....Elbert Hubbard.
One of the characteristics of love relationships that floweris a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure -- awillingness to let our partner enter into the interior of ourprivate world and a genuine interest in the private world ofthat partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselvesto each other than to any other person....Nathaniel Branden.
To love is to enjoy seeing, touching, and sensingwith all the senses, as closely as possible, a lovableobject which loves in return....Del Amour Stendhal.
Love simply cannot spring up without that self-surrenderto each other. If either withholds the self,love cannot exist....Dr. E. Stanley Jones.
The best proof of love is trust....Dr. Joyce Brothers.
Love is friendship set to music....Pollock.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself....Jean Anouilh.
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, becomevulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being uniqueamong life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapturethat can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are nolimitations 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 forwhat I am when I am with you. I love you notonly for what you have made of yourself, but forwhat you are making of me. I love you for the partof me that you bring out....Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Love is an irresistible desire to beirresistibly desired....Robert Frost.
Absence diminishes small loves and increasesgreat ones, as the wind blows out the candleand fans the bonfire....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
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 convictionthat we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,loved in spite of ourselves....Victor Hugo.
Gravitation is not responsible forpeople falling in love....Albert Einstein.
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 Natureand embroidered by imagination....Voltaire.
Love is composed of a single soulinhabiting two bodies....Aristotle.
Love is the exchange of two fantasies andthe contact of two skins....Nicholas Chamfort.
Love is an energy - it can neither be creatednor 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.
Love has nothing to do with what you areexpecting to get -- only with what you areexpecting to give -- which is everything....Katherine Hepburn.
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 strengthwhile loving someone deeply gives you courage....Lao-Tsu.
Love, the magician, knows this little trickwhereby two people walk in different directionsyet always remain side by side....Hugh Prather.
Love is just a feeling of togethernessand 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 isbecome someone who can be loved; the rest is up to them....Unknown.
A baby is born with the need to be loved -- and neveroutgrows it. Children are God's apostles, day by daysent forth to preach of love and hope and peace....James Russell Lowell.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is justbeyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietlyit may alight upon you....Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The greatest pleasure of life is love....William Temple.
Where there is great love there arealways miracles....Willa Cather.
Who travels for love finds a thousandmiles not longer than one....Japanese Proverb.
Music is love in searchof a word....Sidney Lanier.
All, everything that I understand, I understandonly because I love....Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy.
Life is one fool thing after another where aslove is two fool things after each other....Oscar Wilde.
To love and be loved is to feel thesun from both sides....David Viscott.
Life is a journey, and love is whatmakes that journey worthwhile....Unknown.
Ever has it been that love knows not its owndepth until the hour of separation....Kahlil Gibran.
Love is too strong a word to say it too early, but it has toobeautiful 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.
The beginning of love is at the endof resistance....Danielle Light.
Love is first friendshipand then commitment....Jacques Pierre Ribault.
To fear love is to fear life....Bertrand 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 willnever let us go. The ultimate legacy is to leave behindsomeone who will love you forever....Ally McBeal.
Fear? What is there to fear in love? Love is the veryreason we live. To fear love is to lose all sense of living,and if we cannot love, then why have we been put here? Fearinglove is like being afraid of breathing. It's not somethingto be scared of. It's so natural that no one can resist....Unknown.
We cannot choose who we love,only whose love we accept....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 othera thousand things without talking....Chinese Proverb.
Sex is a momentary itch,love never lets you go....Unknown.
Let no one who loves be unhappy.Even love unreturned has its rainbow....James Matthew Barrie.
Love will find a way through pathswhere wolves fear to prey....Lord George Gordon Byron.
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults.When you love someone, you love them with their faults....Elizabeth Cameron.
Where there is love there is life....Mahatma Gandhi.
She who has never loved,has never lived....J. Gay.
To love without expected return on my investmentfrees me to love with purity of heart, mind and soul...I am not distracted by selfish motive or disappointedby insensitivity...I am free to love...just love....L. Hodge.
There is but one genuine love potion - consideration....Menander.
There is no surprise more magical thanthe surprise of being loved: It is God'sfinger on man's shoulder....Charles Morgan.
There is only one happiness in life,to love and be loved....George Sands.
Love, you know, seeks to make happyrather than to be happy....Ralph Connor.
Love is a verb. We can't say it enough. Love must notonly be spoken, but must also be shown. The beginning oflove is God. He showed His love in the most sacrificial ofways so we could know our incredible value to Him. The priceof our adoption was the emptying of heaven of its greatesttreasure, God the Son, who is our Savior....Phil Ware.
Love is the triumph of imaginationover 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 is the seed of all hope. It is the enticementto trust, to risk, to try, to go on....Gloria Gaither.
Sooner or later we begin to understand that love ismore than verses on valentines and romance in the movies.We begin to know that love is here and now, real and true,the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creatorof our favorite memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams.Love is a promise that is always kept, a fortune that can never bespent, a seed that can flourish in even the most unlikely of places.And this radiance that never fades, this mysterious and magical joy, is thegreatest treasure of all -- one known only by those who love....Unknown.
Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of twoor more people to produce together conditions under which eachcan be and spontaneously express, his real self; to producetogether an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in whicheach can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone....Unknown.
Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime,and never let go till we're gone....Titanic Theme.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking theimagination and bottling the common-sense....Helen Rowland.
Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexualattachment between a man and a woman that reflects a highregard 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 seenwith 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 innategoodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until theylook into the mirror of our love and see themselves....John Gray, Ph.D.
Once you have learned to love,You will have learned to live....Unknown.
All love that has not friendship for its base,is like a mansion built upon the sand....Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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 means tearing down the separateness and the boundariesbetween your heart feelings and another person....Ken Keyes.
It [Love] is not a word, nor a single action.In truth, it can never be wrongLike the sunrise, perfect in every possible way.It is many things and yet it must existIn the small space of the heart.Once found it can bloom endlessly, with no cease.It can choke one's throat, bring one to tears...But it never hides in shadows or in darknessIt never feeds itself on deception.It grows with trust, honesty and compassion.Nothing less, always more....Unknown.
Love is a hole in the heart....Ben Hecht.
In Persian, the verb "to love" is translated"to have a friend"....the phrase "I love you"is translated "I have you as a friend"....Unknown.
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like a volcano and thensubsides and when it subsides you have to make a decision. You haveto work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it isinconceivable that you should ever part, because this is what love is.Love is not the breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not thepromise of eternal passion, and it is not the desire to mate everyminute 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 hasburned away, and this both an art and a fortunate accident....Louis De Bernieres.
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something,but to be loved by the one you love is everything....Unknown.
Love is the doorway through which the human soulpasses from selfishness to service....Unknown.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of anotherperson is essential to your own....Robert A. Heinlein.
When you are in love, life should not be measured by themoments 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.
Love is a disease which fills you with a desireto be desired....Henri, Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Love is what is left in a relationship afterall the selfishness is taken out....Nick Richardson.
I love you, and because I love you, I wouldsooner have you hate me for telling you thetruth than adore me for telling you lies....Pietro Aretino.
There is no disguise which can hide lovefor long where it exists, or simulate it whereit does not....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
When we are in love we often doubt thatwhich we most believe....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract.You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you willbe tomorrow where your thoughts take you....James Lane Allen.
To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best....William M. Thackeray.
The way to love anything is to realizethat it might be lost....Gilbert Chesterton.
To love is to admire with the heart:to admire is to love with the mind....Theophile Gautier.
Love does not die easily. It is a livingthing. It thrives in the face of all of life'shazards, save one--neglect....James D. Bryden.
Love is something eternal;the aspect may change,but not the essence....Vincent Van Gogh.
Kindness in words creates confidenceKindness in thinking creates profoundnessKindness in giving creates love....Lao-Tsu.
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and thereis more joy in the passion one feels thanin that which one inspires.....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
Love is union with somebody, or something,outside oneself, under the conditionof retaining the separateness andintegrity of one's own self....Erich Fromm.
Love is the immortal flow of energy thatnourishes, extends and preserves. It'seternal goal is life....Smiley Blanton.
Anything will give up its secrets if you love itenough. Not only have I found that when I talk to thelittle flower or to the little peanut they will giveup their secrets, but I have found that when I silentlycommune with people they give up their secrets also -- ifyou love them enough....George Washington Carver.
Love is the essence of God....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Music is expression of harmony in sound.Love is the expression of harmony in life....Stephen F. Gaskin.
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy,but it is very rare because most people are strategists....Anita Brookner.
Being in love is a wonderful feeling but beingloved and appreciated in return can be the mostwonderful experience that can happen to your life....Unknown.
The art of love...is largely theart of persistence....Albert Ellis.
The best portion of a good man's lifeis his little, nameless, unremembered actsof kindness and of love....William Wordsworth.
Suddenly, quietly, you realize that ~ from this momentforth ~ you will no longer pass through this world alone.Like a new sun, this awareness rises within you, freeingyou from fear, opening your life. This is the beginningof love and the end of all that came before....Unknown.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem tothink it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;love is a growing up....James Baldwin.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a restingplace for those who love us....Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a wayas to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joinsthem by what is deepest in themselves....Pierre Teilhard De Chardin.
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.
As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind awonderful feeling of delight that awakens and bindstogether the love of them that kiss....St. Aelred.
Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrificesyou make, the giving of self. If you want to study love,study those who sacrifice for others. Love -- the feeling --is a fruit of love the verb....Stephen R. Covey.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life....Pablo Picasso.
Real love begins where nothing isexpected in return....Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Love is when each person is more concernedfor the other than for one's self....David Frost.
Remember that the best relationship isone in which your love for each other exceedsyour need for each other....Unknown.
Give all to love;Obey thy heart....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Love puts the fun in together,the sad in apart,the hope in tomorrow,the joy in a heart....Unknown.
Love is its own reward....Thomas Merton.
I believe love produces a certainflowering of the whole personalitywhich nothing else can achieve....Ivan Sergeevich.
Love: To feel with one's whole self theexistence of another being....Simone Weil.
Between whom there is hearty truththere is love....Henry David Thoreau.
Love endures when the lovers love many things togetherAnd not merely each other.....Walter Lippmann.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire....Swedenborg.
Who, being loved, is poor?....Oscar Wilde.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoidof the power to love....Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Physical love is total intimacy.It is the sign that the lovers havenothing to refuse each other, that theybelong 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 Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
Where there is a today....there was probablya yesterday....but possibly never a tomorrow....make the most of wherever your heart desiresto be....tell her you love her....Unknown.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting:a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected -- in sofar 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.
Holding the heart of another in thecomforting hands of prayer is apriceless act of love....Janet L. Weaver.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for thespecies of woman in whose company he finds himselfelectrified and enkindled, but for that one in whosecompany he may feel tenderly drowsy....George Jean Nathan.
Love and respect are the most important aspectsof parenting, and of all relationships....Jodie Foster.
In those whom I like, I can find no commondenominator; in those whom I love I can:they all make me laugh....Wystan Hugh Auden.
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it isno such thing. For weeks and months it is a steadyphysical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one,by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves liketoothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant,but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength....Henry Adams.
Live through feeling and you will live through love.For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth....Matt Zotti.
Love comes when manipulation stops; when youthink more about the other person than about hisor her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourselffully. When you dare to be vulnerable....Dr. Joyce Brothers.
A very small degree of hope issufficient to cause the birth of love....Stendhal.
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 lovein order that I may be loved back again, but for the creativejoy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at leasta little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that mostintolerable of master, myself....Bernard Iddings Bell.
Because of a great love,one is courageous....Lao-Tsu.
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 eyesto see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs andsorrows 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 ispowerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer youmore joy than any material possession could....Barbara De Angelis.
The love of liberty is the love of others;the love of power is the love of ourselves.We cannot force love....William Hazlitt.
Where we love is home,home that our feet may leave,but not our hearts....Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Love is everywhere, it has no distance.All you have to do is stop the resistance....Matt Zotti.
True love is the parentof humility....William Ellery Channing.
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 therewere only one of us....St. Augustine.
Sometimes you have to just take a chance in love and life.You can't live your life amongst a mound of "what ifs."You have to follow your heart and hope for the best....My Best Friend.
Love is more than words....Unknown.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it,and all healthy instinct for it....Samuel Butler.
A joyful heart is the inevitable result ofa heart burning with love....Mother Teresa.
In life, actions speak louder than words,but in love, the eyes do....Unknown.
Love is friendship that has caught fire.It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence,sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through goodand bad times. It settles for less than perfection andmakes allowances for human weaknesses....Ann Landers.
The quickest way to receive love is to give;the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;and the best way to keep love is to give it wings....Unknown.
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.
Love is the child of freedom, neverthat of domination....Erich Fromm.
Love is an instinct and hence beyond mind's control.Love is an emotion and works always with motion....Unknown.
When you love you should not say, "God is in myheart" but rather, "I am in the heart of God."And think not you can direct the course of love,for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course....Unknown.
If you have reasons for loving someone,then you are using your mind, but if youlove someone for no reason,then you are using your heart....Unknown.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,and the delight in the recognition....Alexander Smith.
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.
Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in powerand there is no darkness it cannot dispel....Meher Baba.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newlyevery time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it withhis 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.
Love is the only game that is not calledon account of darkness....M. Hirschfield.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like aprecious plant. You can't just accept it and leaveit in the cupboard or just think it's going to get onby itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got toreally look after it and nurture it....John Lennon.
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of thedivine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love ismeasured by fullness, not by reception....Harold Loukes.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionshipand persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritualaffinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it willnot be created for years or even generations....Kahlil Gibran.
Love is what happens to men and women whodon't know each other....W. Somerset Maugham.
You know what's the most terrifying thing about admittingthat you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourselfin harm's way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes,no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The onlything that makes it tolerable is to believe the other personloves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you....Unknown.
We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makesus feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, everyemotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we areflying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, anafternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are leftwith memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives....Unknown.
Love is not what we become but whowe already are....Stephen Levine.
It is difficult for some people to accept that loveis a choice. This seems to run counter to the generallyaccepted theory of romantic love which expounds thatlove is inborn and as such requires no more than toaccept it. This theory believes that love is a magicalforce which frees us from all suffering and solves everyproblem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent,there may be some truths to each of these beliefs,but having the capacity to love is not the same ashaving the ability to love....Leo Buscaglia.
Joy is a net of love that captures souls....Mother Teresa.
The most important thing in life is to learn how togive out LOVE, and to let it come in....Morrie Schwartz.
When we love something it is of value to us, and whensomething is of value to us we spend time with it, timeenjoying it and time taking care of it....M. Scott Peck.
Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction.It is something accessible and human that we learnthrough our everyday experience, as often at timesof failure as in moments of ecstasy....Leo Buscaglia.
Real beauty lies in the spiritual accordthat is called love which can exist betweena man and a woman....Kahlil Gibran.
The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we passthrough this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tapeparades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But thatthat does not lessen our possible impact, for there arescores of people waiting for someone just like us to comealong; people who will appreciate our compassion, our uniquetalents. Someone who will live a happier life merely becausewe took the time to share what we had to give. Too often weunderestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind worda listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest actof caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around.It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunitiesthere are to make our love felt....Leo Buscaglia.
Love is a force that connects us to every strand ofthe universe, an unconditional state that characterizeshuman nature, a form of knowledge that is always there forus if only we can open ourselves to it....Emily Hilburn Sell.
If you open your heart,love opens your mind....Unknown.
True love is the unearned compliment,the gift forever giving....Burke Day.
Love is like a beautiful flower whichI may not touch, but whose fragrancemakes the garden a place of delightjust the same....Helen Keller.
Love is the reward of love....Schiller.
Hate is easy;Love takes courage....Unknown.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well ofaffection, and not a fountain, to show themthat we love them, not when we feel like it,but when they do....Nan Fairbrother.
When the one man loves the one woman and the onewoman loves the one man, the very angels leaveheaven and come sit in that house and sing for joy....Brahma.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedlyand without law, and must be plucked where it is found,and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration....D.H. Lawrence.
Love is wanting what you have, not havingwhat you want....Jaci in Alaska -- an on-line love story.
Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are manyways to encourage that growth, such as through love,nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service.The soul grows well when giving and receiving love.I nourish my soul daily by loving others and beingvulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb,an action word, not a noun....Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Happiness and love are just a choice away....Leo Buscaglia.
To write a good love letter, you ought to beginwithout knowing what you mean to say, and finishwithout knowing what you have written....Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Love is always saying you're sorry....Rep. Burke Day.
Love is life...and if you miss love,you miss life....Leo Buscaglia.
Heaven is the perfect,unconditional love for another....Unknown.
Wicked men obey from fear;good men, from love....Aristotle.
To love someone means to see him asGod intended him....Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
You love simply because youcannot help it....Kim Anderson.
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries.But a woman who loves aman would sleep on a board....D. H. Lawrence.
Love is being stupid together....Calvin.
Love cures people -- both the oneswho give it and the ones whoreceive it....Dr. Karl Menninger.
Spread love everywhere you go: first of allin 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 betterand happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness;kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness inyour smile, kindness in your warm greeting....Mother Teresa.
True love never dies for it is lust thatfades away. Love bonds for a lifetimebut lust just pushes away....Alicia Barnhart.
Love is like playing the piano.First you must learn to play by the rules,then you must forget the rules and play from your heart....Unknown.
Absence sharpens love,presence strengthens it....Traditional.
The greatest healing therapy isfriendship and love....Hubert Humphrey.
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destinywithout leaving some mark on it forever....Francois Mocuriac.
Plant impossible gardens.Look forward to dreams.Cry during movies.Swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight.Cultivate moods.Do it for love.Take lots of naps.Take moonbaths.Giggle with children.Listen to old people.Drive away fear.Play with everything.Entertain your inner child.Build a fort with blankets.Get wet.Hug trees.Write love letters....SARK.
To paraphrase something the anthropologistAshley Montagu once said, the way I change mylife is to act as if I'm the person I want to be.This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice youcan give anyone. When you wake up and act like aloving person, you realize not only that you arealtered, but that the people around you are alsotransformed, because everybody is changed bythe reception of this love....Bernie Siegel.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,My love as deep; the more I give to theeThe more I have, for both are infinite....Shakespeare.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have tochoose joy and keep choosing it every day. It isa choice based on the knowledge that we belong toGod and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not evendeath, can take God away from us. Joy is the experienceof knowing that you are unconditionally loved and thatnothing--sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression,war, or even death--can take that love away....Henri Nouwen.
Remember who loved you first....Jesus Christ.
Once you love, you cannot takeit back, cannot undo it. What youfelt may have changed, shifted slightly,yet still remains love....Whitney Otto.
Patience with others is Love,Patience with self is Hope,Patience with God is Faith....Adel Bestavros.
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, andher flaming self-respect and it's these things I'dbelieve in even if the whole world indulged in wildsuspicions that she wasn't all she should be…I love herand that's the beginning of everything....F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The fruit of Silence is PrayerThe fruit of Prayer is FaithThe fruit of Faith is LoveThe fruit of Love is ServiceThe fruit of Service is Peace.... Mother Teresa.
Listen more carefully •Notice the seasons change •Hold hands with someone you love •Give more hugs •Watch more sunsets •Take walks •Sing out loud more often •Square dance a little •Have more picnics •Make friends wherever you go •Feel good about yourself •Daydream a little •Laugh as much as possible •Take your shoes off •Use your imagination •Tell more stories.... National Storytelling Festival.
Remembering God, or whatever you choose to call theLoving force that created us, is what "waking up"is all about. It is remembering that Love is whatcreated us and, therefore, Love is what we are. It isremembering that we are spiritual beings, who werecreated as the essence of Love....Jerry Jampolsky & Diane Cirincione.
1. Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest;remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, getout your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptablewhen you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as youwant to be treated. Practice love and understanding....Lou Holtz.
In an article describing his Palm Springs home,Architectural Digest reported that Frank Sinatra hadthe following credo hanging on his bedroom wall:I believe in the sun even when it's not shining.I believe in love even when not feeling it.I believe in God even when He is silent....Unknown.
We can only learn to love by loving....Iris Murdoch.
Pleasant fragrances of the breezes of love blow from thelovers even though they might conceal it. The effects ofthese breezes bear witness to them even if they disguiseit and are apparent even if they hide it....Abu Ali Katib.
Love, then, hath every bliss in store; 'Tis friendship,and 'tis something more. Each other every wish theygive; not to know love is not to live....John Gray.
You may wish to be loving -- you may even try with all yourmight -- but your love will never be pure unless you are freefrom resentment. When we are free from resentment, lovingis effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this isgenerally a sign that we are repressing our resentments....John Gray.
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong,and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise menof fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in aword, turning everything topsy-turvy....Marguerite De Valois.
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time:effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end....Germaine De Stael.
Two things you should NEVER say to the one you love:"I love you, but..." and "If you loved me,you would..." Should you really qualify love with conditions?....Unknown.
One forgives to the degree that one loves....Francois Duc De La Rochefaucould.
Love withers with predictability; its very essence issurprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of themundane is to take its passion and lose it forever....Leo Buscaglia.
But love is a durable fireIn the mind ever burning;Never sick, never old, never deadFrom itself never turning....Sir Walter Raleigh.
There are only four questions of value in life...What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made?What is worth living for? What is worth dying for?The answer to each is the same. Only love....Don Juan De Marco.
Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.And when it hits you, you've just got to fall....UB40.
Find the person who will love you because ofyour differences and not in spite of them andyou have found a lover for life....Leo Buscaglia.
For women, "I love you" is the sweetest phrase in theworld. But not every man who says it means it. On the other hand,some men may feel it deeply, but still find it hard to say.There are several reasons these words might stick in a man's throat.The first is that, quite commonly, men have a difficult timeexpressing the emotions they feel most deeply. Another reasonis the words "I love you" might be interpreted as amarriage proposal. So that nothing gets lost in the translation,men with this concern will wait for the time in which theycan back up their words with a lifetime commitment....John Gray.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:our love to others, and others' love to us....Thomas Trahern.
Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers,never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is lovethere is life; hatred leads to destruction....Mahatma Gandhi.
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We allknow what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it,not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses theissue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimesbecome too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to rememberthat love is easy. It's we who make it complicated....Leo Buscaglia.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being inthe innermost core of his personality....Victor Frankel.
Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attentionand admiration, Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman,what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper:you are the most special person in my life....Charles Stanley.
Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender,thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy,than by service; love is more than money, and a kind wordwill give more pleasure than a present....Sir John Lubbock.
The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling awoman's primary love needs is through communication.By learning to listen to a woman's feelings, a man caneffectively shower a woman with caring, understanding,respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance....John Gray.
Romantic-love relationships are made or broken by the effectiveness orineffectiveness of communication. The essence of mutual self-disclosureis communication. And no element of communication is more important toromantic love than that of feelings and emotions....Dr. Nathaniel Branden.
Love...Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love,nor even control it. You can only guide its expression.It comes or it goes according to those qualities in lifethat invite it or deny its presence....David Seabury.
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise thenyou will discover the fullness of your life....David Steindl-Rast.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it isnot difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough.But is a hard quest worth making to find a comradethrough whose steady presence one becomessteadily the person one desires to be....Anna Strong.
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughlythe soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger andmore detached its tenderness becomes....Saint Teresa.
We really have to understand the person we want to love.If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If weonly think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignorethe needs of the other person, we cannot love....Thich Nat Hanh.
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the onlycure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love.There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread,but there are many more dying for a little love....Mother Teresa.
They do not love that do not show their love....William Shakespeare.
If you are truly in love with a man's daughter.You'll love her till eternity ends, and after....Jerusalmi Streete.
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems,knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage andseize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient withoutcourage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy....Dean Koontz.
Love is not losing freedom, it is sharing freedom with another....Unknown.
Love is an education in itself....Eleanor Roosevelt.
Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days,and the secret of its meaning is found in simple ways.Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehowfeeling warm inside because you're close in heart....Kay Knudsen.
If I tell you I love you can I keep you forever?....Casper.
Love doesn't require anything of the other person....love gives without asking anything in return....Unknown.
To the child, Love is both real and pretense:a necessity sometimes, a role at other times:instinctive, yet learned behavior....Unknown.
A newly married couple said, "What shall we doto make our love endure?" Said the Master,"Love other things together"....Anthony De Mello.
Love does not bind with chains and demands,love gives the soul wings. Love teaches freedomand happiness and gives inner peace....Unknown.
What love is: It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation,utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against thewhole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter....Charles Dickens.
The moment I heard my first love story I began seeking you...not knowing that the search was useless. Lovers don't meet somewherealong the way, they're in one another's soul from the beginning....Unknown.
Love is when the woman of your dreams becomes areality and sleep stops being a priority....Unknown.
'Tis better to have loved and lost,than never to have lost at all....Samuel Butler.
Love is like the moon; when it doesnot increase it decreases....Segur.
Love can happen anywhere at any time andalmost always when we least expect it....Unknown.
Marry a person you love to talk to. As youget older, their conversational skillswill be as important as any other....Unknown.
The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not inwhat it keeps, but in what it gives....Father Andrew.
Lust is a state of the mind, love is astate of the heart & soul....Unknown.
No one can tell anyone what love is; you will simplyknow it when you feel nothing else....Jared Little.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength,and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplishmuch, and what is done in love is done well....Vincent Van Gogh.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everythingand two minus one equals nothing....Mignon McLaughlin.
Love is the only gold....Tennyson.
We all love best not those who offend us least,nor those who have done most for us, but those who makeit most easy for us to forgive them....Samuel Butler.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what isabove its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinksall things lawful for itself, and all things possible....Thomas A. Kempis.
Love is not finding someone to live with,it's finding someone you can't live without....Rafael Ortiz.
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering islove enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love inaction; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in toughsituations; and temperance is love in training....D.L. Moody.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love....Goethe.
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But becauseit sees more, it is willing to see less....Rabbi Julius Gordon.
And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world andeverything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge,which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end uplosing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. Andthat, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more....Ann Rinaldi.
Love can hope where reason would despair....George, Lord Lyttleton.
True love doesn't have a happy ending:true love doesn't have an ending....Unknown.
The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice....Carolyn Fry.
Love is...born with the pleasure of looking at each other,it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it isconcluded with the impossibility of separation....Jose Marti Y Perez.
Love distills desire upon the eyes,love brings bewitching grace into the heart....Euripides.
Depth has one address: fidelity in love....Dr Laura.
Once you've felt love, you'll know it's lovebecause you don't want to let it go....Jean Zheng.
If you can't love me at my worst,you don't need me at my best....Unknown.
Love is when you are kept awake at night withthoughts of him...and when sleep finally finds you,he is waiting there in your dreams....Unknown.
Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands withopen hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love'sprerogative -- to give and give and give....John Oxenham.
Love may last for just a moment but memorycan make that moment last forever....Unknown.
Love is like air, you cannot see it, however you can feel it.Sometimes it can create great turbulence and other timesit is so calm you question it's reality....Unknown.
Love isn't just 'at the moment' it's forever....Unknown.
The story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again....Jimi Hendrix.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once givennever forgotten, never let it disappear....John Lennon.
Love one another, but make no bond of love; let it rather bea moving sea between the shores of your soul. Fill each other’scup, but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread,but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together andbe joyous, but let each one of you be alone....Kahlil Gibran.
Love suffers longAnd is kind.Love envies not.Seeks not her own.Thinks no evil.Bears all things.Believes all things.Hopes all things.Love never fails....I Corinthians 13:4-6.
Never forget that the most powerfulforce on earth is love....Nelson Rockefeller.
Love is...running into his arms,Colliding with his heart,And exploding into his soul....Unknown.
Like any other living, growing thing, love requireseffort to keep it healthy....Leo Buscaglia.
Love is a flower...you've got to let it grow....John Lennon.
Love runs raw and wild through my heart and soul,nourishing me and helping me to grow....Unknown.
Love is a mutual self-giving whichends in self-recovery....Fulton J. Sheen.
How blessed I am that I can walk beside you, lean upon you,and live within the warmth of your love....Roy Lessin.
Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can'tfind it, someone has to give it to you.Learn to be receptive of that gift....Kurt Langner.
The image of myself which I try to create in my ownmind in order that I may love myself is very differentfrom the image which I try to create in the minds ofothers in order that they may love me....Wystan Hugh Auden.
When you have nothing left but love, then for the firsttime you become aware that love is enough....Unknown.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to beconsoled as to console; to be understood as to understand;to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive;it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dyingthat we are born to eternal life....Saint Francis of Assisi.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could neverhave been obliged to love anything. So that self-loveis the basis of all love....Thomas Traherne.
I think of love as a muscle like the heart.It's powerful. It pumps blood through you and keepsyou alive and feeling good....Amanda Innis.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is howthe whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficultto achieve; and bad things are very easy to get....Morarji Desai.
Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinelylearn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives.Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help usto live worthily and to overcome the world....David B. Haight.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one,walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth ina flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and endsin the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged butin the morning; for there is no force able to resist it....Miguel De Cervantes.
Love all that has been created by God, both the whole andevery grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light.Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love everyseparate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understandthe mystery of the whole resting in God....Fyodor Dostoevski.
Love works a different way in different mindsthe fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds....John Dryden.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those thatyou care for to be what they choose for themselves,without any insistence that they satisfy you....Wayne Dyer.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christhung, and bled, and died, it was God sayingto the world, 'I love you'....Billy Graham.
I met in the street a very poor young man who wasin love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloakwas out at the elbows, the water passed through hisshoes -- and the stars through his soul....Victor Hugo.
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning andEvening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and shedsits radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirerof poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of everyheart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth,it was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody.Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things tojoy, and makes right royal kings of common clay....Robert Green Ingersoll.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flowback and soften and purify the heart....Washington Irving.
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weatheredthe storms of life. The love of the young for the young,that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old forthe old, that is the beginning of things longer....Jerome K. Jerome.
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyondone's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could oneconceive what love is, beforehand, never....D. H. Lawrence.
Human Love...It is that extra creation that stands hurt andbaffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting childrenand sunlight and breath to go on, forever....Christopher Leach.
Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being.We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathelove as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we holdour thoughts. Nothing more exists for us....Guy De Maupassant.
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it giveslike a thoughtless prodigal its all, and thentrembles least it has done to little....Hannah More.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action....Mother Teresa.
Do not think that love in order to be genuine hasto be extraordinary. What we need is to love withoutgetting tired. Be faithful in small things becauseit is in them that your strength lies....Mother Teresa.
The way of peace is the way of love.Love is the greatest power on earth.It conquers all things....Peace Pilgrim.
Pure love is a willingness to give without athought of receiving anything in return....Peace Pilgrim.
Love expands....Hugh Prather.
Love rules his kingdom without a sword....Proverb.
It is easy to half the potato where there is love....Irish Proverb.
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a responseto one's own values in the person of another. One gains aprofoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existenceof the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfishhappiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love....Ayn Rand.
Many people when they fall in love look for a littlehaven of refuge from the world, where they can be sureof being admired when they are not admirable, and praisedwhen they are not praiseworthy....Bertrand Russell.
The root of the matter…the thing I mean...is love, Christian love,or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence,a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperativenecessity for intellectual honesty....Bertrand Russell.
Give us, O God, the vision which can see Yourlove in the world in spite of human failure.Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spiteof our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledgethat we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.And show us what each one of us can do to set forwardthe coming of the day of universal peace....Frank Borman.
There is a time for risky love. There is a time forextravagant gestures. There is a time to pour outyour affections on one you love. And when the timecomes -- seize it, don't miss it....Max Lucado.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted.Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another'sheart, or its flame burns low....Henry Ward Beecher.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to wastetime...it tells us to tell each other right nowthat we love each other....Leo F. Buscaglia.
"True love" isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you haveas it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially -- even,or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it....William R. Mattox, Jr.
Two hearts, two minds, in time did findone love, one aim two paths the same.Hold fast...and love will last....Matt Buttram.
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world,it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have allthe lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energyfor good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzlingwhy we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract ideauntil we put it into action...unless we are always activelyliving in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we havebeen given and which we, in turn, have to offer....Leo Buscaglia.
There is much to be known, and above all much tobe loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shapeof a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love,the more we add to the measure of our hearts....Adaon.
In a relationship. The times that I remember the most.Are the times when I was with my girlfriend in the spirit oflove. Not in the feeling of lust....Brad Breitenstein.
Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear...if you do not feel the jolt in your soul every timea kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt,then you're not really in love at all....C. J. Franks.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing calledlove and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you willdiscover that for you the world is transformed....Jiddu Krishnamurti.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just betweenyour bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls,the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, andthe more real moments you will experience together....Barbara De Angelis.
Worship: It is the song of the heart that is grateful to God.Work: It is the secret of success.Play: It is the symbol of youthfulness.Read: It is the source of knowledge.Think: It is the strength of the mind.Love: It is the sacrament of life.Dream: It is the soul of aspiration.Help: It is the secret of happiness.Laugh: It is the song of experience.Pray: It is the source of strength.Plan: It is the secret of being ableto have time for all of the above.Inspiration....Unknown.
Each of us is responsible for creating an environmentof warmth and consideration for those we love. I havealways tried to define a good day not in terms of onein which all things were made right and comfortable forme but rather, as a day in which I have been able to makeanother's day more loving and special for them. We musttreat each other with dignity. Not because we merit itbut because we grow best in thoughtfulness....Leo Buscaglia.
To love only for the looks is to only see with your eyes,but to love with your soul is to see with your heart....Unknown.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; thosethings you must build upon in order to have a solidemotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson,love the person/people (anyway); and put what you have learnedto use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It issaid that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant....Unknown.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price....St. Jerome.
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong,patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous,and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seekethhis own, there he falleth from love....Thomas ã Kempis.
Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brownand gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But thehearts that love will know, never winter's frost andchill, summer's warmth is in them still....Leo Buscaglia.
Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you.All you can really do is accept it for all its mysterywhen it comes into your life. Feel the way it fillsyou to overflowing, then reach out and give it away.Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you.Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit. Give itto the world around you in any way you can....Unknown.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point,then leave it behind. Nothing really matters exceptwhat you do now in this instant of time. From this momentonwards you can be an entirely different person, filledwith love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand,uplifted and positive in every thought and deed....Eileen Caddy.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merelyto seek and find all the barriers within yourselfthat you have built against it....Rumi.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.Against such things there is no law. Notice the word *fruit*is singular, yet it lists nine....Galatians 5:22. So there isonly one fruit of the Spirit. That fruit is love. The others....Joy -- love smilingPeace -- love restingPatience -- love waitingKindness -- love showing itselfsensitive to others' feelingsGoodness -- love making allowancesFaithfulness -- love proving constantGentleness -- love yieldingSelf-control -- love triumphing overselfish inclinations....Unknown.
Forever will little opportunities to love daily dropinto our hands to abundantly satisfy the question,"Lord, what will you have me do?"....Unknown.
The litmus test of discipleship is in Jesus’own words, "By this all will know you areMy disciples, if you love one another"....John 13:35.
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender,thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathythan by service. Love is more than money, and a kind wordwill give more pleasure than a present....Sir John Lubbock.
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as wellas those who refuse to love us....Dr. Karl Menninger.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhapsthe most fatal to true happiness....Bertrand Russell.
Lust is the forest fire that destroys everythingin its path, love is a torch that burnsintensely and bonds two hearts....Unknown.
Love is taking the standards that you have forsomeone, or even your own feelings, and havingthem totally blown away....J. Edward Bucher.
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither,the heart's blessing can heal, and that love canovercome all odds....Ralph Waldo Emerson :-)
Peace will come when the power of loveovercomes the love of power....Jimi Hendrix.
Love has to spring spontaneously from withinAnd it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force.Love and coercion can never go together;But though love cannot be forced on anyone,It can be awakened in him through love itself.Love is essentially self communicative;Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.True love is unconquerable and irresistible,And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself,Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches....Meher Baba.
Love is as much of an object as an obsession,everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few everachieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it,and among all, never...never forget it....Curtis Judalet.
To love another person is to see the face of God....Victor Hugo.
I love you. And not in a friendly way, although I thinkwe're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection,puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it.And it's not because you're unattainable. I love you.Very simply, very truly. You're the epitome of every attributeand quality I've ever looked for in another person....Chasing Amy.
To love one who loves you,To admire one who admires you,In a word,to be the idol of one's idol,Is exceeding the limit of human joy;It is stealing fire from heaven....Delphine De Girardin.
I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happywith myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halveshave little choice but to join; and yes, they do makea whole. But two wholes when they coincide...that is beauty. That is love....Peter McWilliams.
Do you want me to tell you something reallysubversive? Love is everything it's crackedup to be. That's why people are so cynicalabout it...it really is worth fighting for,being brave for, risking everything for.And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything,you risk even more....Erica Jong.
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission.It is a counterfeit love that is contingent uponauthority, punishment, or reward. True love is respectand admiration, compassion and kindness, freelygiven by a healthy, unafraid human being....Dan Barker.
This is the miracle that happens every timeto those who really love; the more they give,the more they possess....Rainer Maria Rilke.
You know it's love when the tiny details aboutanother person, ones that are insignificant to mostpeople, seem fascinating and incredible to you....Unknown.
Only love lets us see normal things in anextraordinary way....Alejandro De Solminihac.
Treasure the love you receive above all.It will survive long after your gold andgood health have vanished....Og Mandino.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity,eternity can be the tick of a clock. Across the barriersof time and the ultimate destiny, love persists, for thehome of the beloved, absent or present, is always in themind and heart. Absence does not diminish love....Mary Parrish.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is thegift of unconditional love and acceptance....Brian Tracy.
True love begins when nothing is lookedfor in return....Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hardto hear pride. Caring is real faint -- like a heartbeat.And pure love -- why, some days it's so quiet,you don't even know it's there....Erma Bombeck.
True love comes quietly, withoutbanners or flashing lights....Erich Segal.
If you create the space and the desire to have love in yourheart as your top priority, you'll start to see that you havethe capacity to make loving decisions, and to have lovingreactions, and to become nondefensive, and to become a betterlistener...and pretty soon a little annoyance will come yourway or someone will do something wrong...and you'll just findyourself forgiving them. You'll find yourself not wanting tobe thrown off-center simply to follow some negative train ofthought that's going to bring you somewhere you don't want togo. You'll find yourself able to stay in that feeling of love --and when you do, almost everything else magically takes care ofitself...love is the most important answer in life....Richard Carlson.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses,and yet it is the humblest imaginable....Mahatma Gandhi.
The greatest possession we have costsnothing; it's known as love....Brian Jett.
Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is aprinciple. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude,moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibilityare principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They arenot hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to truenorth, your heart will recognize true principles....Sean Covey.
If we don't tell them we love them, the ones wefall in love with are usually gone before we hadthe chance to lose them ourselves....Unknown.
Love is the hammer that will break the hardest heart....Unknown.
Those who are afraid of love and where it mighttake you, don't be. For letting someone into yourlife and letting them know you that well is thegreatest accomplishment ever....Nikole Flannery.
Love has the power to break all chains --Swim the deepest seas --Endure the strongest pains --Love is the glow in the darkest night leadingyou on until you have sight....Cristoto Larita.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have alove affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd nevergo into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that'snonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the timeand build your wings on the way down....Ray Bradbury.
You can search throughout the entire universe forsomeone who is more deserving of your love and affectionthan you are yourself, and that person is not to befound anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in theentire universe, deserve your love and affection....Buddha.
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart,for eyes may be deceived....Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
Love dictates, but a kiss writes the secrets of the heart....Unknown.
If you begin the day with love in your heart,Peace in your nerves,And truth in your mind,You not only benefit by their presenceBut also bring them to others,To your family and friends, and to all thoseWhose destiny draws across your path that day....Unknown.
Even if courage fails you, tell that special someonethat you love them in anyway possible....Unknown.
When someone opens his/herself up to you,it is not so that you know where toattack in the time of battle, but sothat you know how to protect him/her fromthe world with your love....Unknown.
Love is not measured by how many times you touch each otherbut by how many times you reach each other....Cathy Moraney.
Let's try to remember that love means keeping intouch with each other's thoughts and feelings...listening, not just to words, but to the emotionsbehind them...seeing, not just the smiles and frowns,but the hurts and pleasures that cause them....Unknown.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attackssimultaneously the head, the heart, & the senses....Voltaire.
When you really want love you willfind it waiting for you....Oscar Wilde.
You must love yourself before you love another.By accepting yourself and fully being what you are...your simple presence can make others happy....Jane Roberts.
The person who doesn't fit in with our notions of who is worthyof our love -- the bag lady at the corner, the strange man whorides through town on a three wheel bike all strung up withflags -- is just the person who, by not fitting into our patterns,insists that we expand not only our views but also our capacityto love. Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand yourlove so that it touches not only those whom you can give it easily,but also those who need it so much....Daphne Rose Kingma.
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another....Leibnitz.
I'm still kissing your hand as one that truly loves allthe yous....words of the most sensitive guy I know...my forever friend Philip Larson....I love you :-)
I love the sun for days, the moon for night,and you forever....Philip...."ditto" from me to you :-)
I have a thought...the one God has meant for us is going tobe the hardest to get, the hardest to keep, and the hardestto accept. Because through all that, love will grow stronger,bonds will become thicker, and the future will become moreclear. Love wasn't made to be easy, otherwise, we wouldn'tend up with the RIGHT person, we would end up with the firstone who came along. By struggling, we single out the wrongones and realize who really is the ONE....J.D.
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 forwhich all other work is but preparation....Rainer Maria Rilke.
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream ofpleasure and madness of desire -- oh, no -- love isnot that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pureliving - yes, love is that and it is the best thing inthe world and the thing that lives the longest....Henry Van Dyke.
...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our livesbut are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health,family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuitsthat bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion fallsaway and we experience heaven on earth....Sarah Ban Brethnach.
It is not love, but lack oflove which is blind....Glenway Wescott.
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free.'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be.And when we find ourselves in the place just right,'Twill be in the valley of love and delight....Traditional Shaker Hymn.
Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy --to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy....Lawrence G. Lovasik.
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world;a prescription often given, too rarely taken....Dr. Karl Menninger.
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore wemust be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes completesense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must besaved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can beaccomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love....Reinhold Niebuhr.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made,like bread, re-made all the time, made new....Ursula K. Le Guin.
Sometimes we see things not as they are but aswe are: Love brings understanding....Unknown.
Love is broad; if you love someone, you love all things,not just their beauty. Love is narrow; you love one andonly one, compared to them, no one matters....A. Braxton.
Love is blind. That is why he alwaysproceeds by touch....French Proverb.
It is the special quality of love not to beable to remain stationary, to be obliged toincrease under pain of diminishing.... Andre Gide.
The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame,for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat ityields and the longer its force lasts....Chrétien De Troyes.
We live by admiration, hope and love....William Wordsworth.
A successful marriage requires falling in lovemany times, always with the same person....Mignon McLaughlin.
A job is what we do for money;work is what we do for love....Marysarah Quinn.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love castethout fear: because fear hath torment. He that fearethis not made perfect in love....1 John 4:18.
Love is something wonderful, it nears to the divine,it is something man nor beast can hate, nor yetcan thy define. Oh sweet and mystic words of love,so gentle, and so dear, they penetrate the soul ofman, so that his heart may hear....K R Lamprey.
If you open your heart, love opens yourmind....Charles John Quarto, Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro.
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind,so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision....Helen Keller.
Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to doall that you could not do unloved....Marques De Santillana.
Whom we love best, to them we can say least....English proverb.
Love is that enviable state that knows noenvy or vanity, only empathy and a longingto be greater than oneself....Joe McMahon.
There are mysteries about our love. Things that neitherone of us may ever understand because love is an emotionwithout limit and understanding. We know we love each otherbut we could never explain completely as why we love eachother. Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apartjust to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, youprobably could never get it back together again....Unknown.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or itis no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon theunpardonable, or it is no virtue at all; faith meansbelieving the unbelievable, or it is no virtue at all;and to hope means hoping when things are hopeless,or it is no virtue at all....G.K. Chesterton.
Love all, trust a few;Do wrong to none....William Shakespeare.
It isn't possible to love and part...you cantransmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but youcan never pull it out of you. I know from experiencethat the poets are right: love is eternal....E M Forester.
Live to love, and love to live....Pierre Khalbourji.
A man is a little thing while he worksby and for himself; but when he givesvoice to the rules of love and justice,he is godlike....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden --it's something you have to make. And you mustuse your imagination too....Joyce Cary.
Love is a feeling that is held tightly within the heart.It begins small and then consumes the body, and pours outour skin flowing eternally to merge with its belovedwaters. It is a mark of pride, that scars the body forall others to look upon. Eyes will speak of the burningand consuming cool warmth from head to toe. The shiverof a touch reversed by the warm burning touch of the skin.These feelings are impossible for one to gain, for it is onlyknown in the eyes of the beholds of love....Paul John Kayiales.
Love considers the well-being of othersas important as its own....Unknown.
He who loves best his fellow-man, is lovingGod the holiest way he can....Alice Cary.
Giving someone all your love is never an assurancethat they'll love you back...don't expect love inreturn; just wait for it to grow in their heart butif it doesn't, be content it grew in yours....Unknown.
Just as the wind dances in my hair, as the ocean massagesmy thoughts, as the sun blankets me in happiness, and asthe earth travels with me across universal challenges,so all the elements of your love fill my life....Unknown.
In love, never put yourself in a situation whereyou're not sure of where you stand in a person'slife...never assume, never expect so that if they dropyou, you have enough strength to move on....Unknown.
Love without friendship is life without hope....Unknown.
The measure of our love for others can be largely determined bythe frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them....Unknown.
Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven...it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured.Find your strength in love....SARAH.
The consciousness of loving and beingloved brings a warmth and richness to lifethat nothing else can bring....Oscar Wilde.
Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement,worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm,well-being, ease, energy, love....Peter McWilliams.
The best way to know God is to love many things....Vincent Van Gogh.
Kindness in words creates confidence,Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,Kindness in giving creates love....Lao-Tsu.