Love is patient, love is kind. It
does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
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. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where
there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass
away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes,
what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I
thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the
ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;
then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But
the greatest of these is love Corinthians
13:4-13
Love is acceptance.
"You don't love someone
because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're
not." Jodi Picoult
What is love but acceptance of
the other, whatever he is. Anaïs Nin
Love accepts change
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
Love is an adventure
We love because it's the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni
We love because it's the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni
Love is ageless
Age does not protect you from
love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anais Nin
Love is the answer
Love is the answer to everything.
It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love,
you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll
never make it. Ray Bradbury
Love awakens the soul.
“The best love is the kind that
awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts
and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d
hoped to give you forever.” Nicholas Sparks
Loves believes.
Who so loves believes the
impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is beauty
Since love grows within you, so
beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul Saint
Augustine
Love is blind. Geoffrey Chaucer
Love is the best of life
Love of man for woman - love of
woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Zane
Grey
Love is brave
A coward is incapable of
exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi
Love cultivates
Love does not dominate; it
cultivates. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Loves cleanses
Let love flow so that it cleanses
the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has
created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and
earthly ambitions. Sai Baba
Love Creates
Love always creates, it never
destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. Leo Buscaglia
Love is Destiny
Love is our true destiny. We do
not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Love is a decision
“Love is a decision, it is a
judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis
for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How
can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment
and decision.” Erich Fromm
Love defines us
Tell me who admires and loves
you, and I will tell you who you are. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is to be desired
Love is an irresistible desire to
be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
Love is desire
In every living thing there is
the desire for love. D. H. Lawrence
Love never dies
“Love never dies a natural death.
It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness
and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness,
of withering, of tarnishing’s.” Anaïs
Nin
Love is often difficult
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Love equalizes
Where love rules, there is no
will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is
the shadow of the other. Carl Jung
Love is endless
Nobody has ever measured, not
even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
Love is enduring
Passion is momentary; love is
enduring. John Wooden
Love is effort
It is easy to hate, and it is
difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good
things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. Confucius
You can transmute love, ignore
it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that
the poets are right: love is eternal. E. M. Forster
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
Love is fleeting
The way to love anything is to
realize that it may be lost. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love forgives
Forgiveness is the final form of
love. Reinhold Niebuhr
Love doesn’t have to be extraordinary
“Do not think that love in order
to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting
tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength
lies.”
Love is a fever
Love is like a fever which comes
and goes quite independently of the will. … there are no age limits for love. Stendhal
Love is a Force
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
Love is a gift
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
Love is the greatest gift that
God has given us. It's free. Taraji P. Henson
Love is giving
You can give without loving, but
you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson
Love grows
Love grows by giving. The love we
give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it
away. Elbert Hubbard
Love is a game
Love is a game that two can play
and both win. Eva Gabor
Love is the Soul of Genius
Neither a lofty degree of
intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love grounds us.
Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Love comes from the heart
Sometimes we make love with our
eyes. Sometimes we make love with our
hands. Sometimes we make love with our
bodies. Always we make love with our
hearts. Author Unknown
Love is happiness
Love is the master key that opens
the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love humbles
Whoever loves becomes humble.
Those who love have so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund
Freud
Love is Honesty
Love is . . . Being honest with
yourself at all times, being honest with the other person at all times,
Telling, listening, respecting the truth, And never pretending.
Love is . . . An understanding so
complete that you feel as if you are a part of the other person, accepting the
other person just the way they are, and not trying to change them to be
something else.
Love is . . . The freedom to
pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person,
the growth of one individual alongside of and together with the growth of
another individual.
Love is . . . The excitement of
planning things together, the excitement of doing things together.
Love is being patient with each
other's needs and desires. John
Wooden
Love starts at home
Love begins by taking care of the
closest ones - the ones at home. Mother Teresa
Love is involved
If you wished to be loved, love. Lucius
Annaeus Seneca
Love is kindness
A tree is known by its fruit; a
man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps
friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil
Love is knowledge
A loving heart is the beginning
of all knowledge.
Love knows no answer for it does
not question.
Love is life.
Is it not by love alone that we
succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Igor Stravinsky
Where there is love there is
life. Mahatma Gandhi
Love listens
The first duty of love is to
listen. Paul Tillich
Love is mature
Immature love says: 'I love you
because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'
Love needs
Love cannot endure indifference.
It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of
another's heart, or its flame burns low. Henry Ward Beecher
Love is overpowering
Love is of all passions the
strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
Love is persistence
The art of love is largely the
art of persistence. Albert Ellis
Love is pleasure
The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides
Love makes us poets
At the touch of love everyone
becomes a poet.
Love is one.
Love is composed of a single soul
inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
Love is passion
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
Love is non-violent
At the center of non-violence
stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is searching
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the
missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think
of their lover. It’s like stepping back
Love is self-assurance.
Love me and the world is
mine. David Reed
Love gives strength. Love gives
courage.
Being deeply loved by someone
gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
Love is life
Life is a song - sing it. Life is
a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. Sai Baba
Love is our soul
Love is a portion of the soul
itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the
atmosphere of paradise.
Love is recognition
Love is but the discovery of
ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander
Love releases
Bitterness imprisons life; love
releases it. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Love is a risk
Love means to commit yourself
without guarantee. Anne Campbell
Love is self-sacrifice
Loyalty and devotion lead to
bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of
self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. Morihei Ueshiba
Love has sides
“For many, love is a two-sided
coin. It can strengthen or stifle, expand or enfeeble, perfect or pauperize.
When love is returned, we soar. We are taken to heights unseen, where it
delights, invigorates, and beautifies. When love is spurned, we feel crippled,
disconsolate, and bereaved. Polish the coin and you will see only requited love
on both sides. I was destined to love you and I will belong to you forever” Colleen
Houck
Love transforms
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is timeless
Love has no age, no limit; and no
death. John Galsworthy
Love is unity
Love does not consist of gazing
at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey
Love is selective vision
Love is the triumph of
imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken
Love is a voice
Love is the voice under all
silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere
force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star E.E.
Cummings
Love starts with you
You, yourself, as much as anybody
in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha
Love is mutual
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in
self-recovery. Fulton J. Sheen
Love is springtime
Love is a springtime plant that
perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Gustave
Flaubert
Love has no limit
There is no limit to the power of
loving. John Morton
Love is everything.
Ultimately love is everything. M.
Scott Peck
Love is the morning
What is love? It is the morning
and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis
Love is energy
Love is an energy which exists of
itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder
Love is alive
We are most alive when we're in
love. John Updike
Love is a reward
Love is love's reward. John
Dryden
Love is color
In our life there is a single color, as on an
artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color
of love. Marc Chagall
Love is a necessity
Love and compassion are
necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama
Love is a union
Love is union with somebody, or
something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness
and integrity of one's own self. Erich Fromm
Love gives
Intense love does not measure, it
just gives. Mother Teresa
Love is a condition of happiness
Love is that condition in which
the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a
disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for
the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert
A. Heinlein
Love is infectious
Love one another and help others
to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious
and the greatest healing energy. Sai Baba
Love is never lost.
If not reciprocated, it will flow
back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving
Love feels no burden, thinks
nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of
impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things
possible. Thomas a Kempis
In art as in love, instinct is
enough. Anatole France
The things that we love tell us
what we are. Thomas Aquinas
Love is the river of life in the
world. Henry Ward Beecher
This love is silent. T. S.
Eliot
Love is life And if
you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia
The best proof of love is trust. Joyce
Brothers
Faith makes all things
possible... love makes all things easy. Dwight L. Moody
Love makes your soul crawl out
from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
Life without love is like a tree without
blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran
Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar
Wilde
Love does not consist in gazing
at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph
Campbell
The more I think about it, the more I realize
there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent Van Gogh
Nothing is mysterious, no human
relation. Except love. Susan Sontag
Love is kind of like when you see
a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It’s just a little
while, and then it burns away… Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight
of reality. Charles Bukowski
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the
mind. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
What is hell? I maintain that it
is the suffering of being unable to love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers
Karamazov.
People sometimes say that you
must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you’d never be confident of
things like ‘My wife loves me’. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty
of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with
somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence,
and they all add up. It isn’t purely inside feeling, like the feeling that
priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside
feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and
kindnesses; this is all real evidence. Richard Dawkins in a letter to his
ten-year-old daughter explaining the importance of evidence in science and in
life.
Love is an untamed force.
When we try to control it, it
destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to
understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. Paulo Coelho, The
Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
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, The Price of the Ticket
Age does not protect you from
love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau
Marrying for love may be a bit
risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. Josh
Billings
Yes, love indeed is light from
heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to
lift from earth our low desire. Lord Byron
Friendship at first sight, like
love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville
Never pretend to a love which you
do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Alan Watts
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't
resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
Ray Bradbury
If you love it enough, anything
will talk with you. George Washington Carver
Love alone is capable of uniting
living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes
them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin
Love always brings difficulties,
that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. Vincent Van
Gogh
But I always think that the best
way to know God is to love many things. Vincent Van Gogh
Fantasy love is much better than
reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions
are between two opposites that never meet. Andy Warhol
The more one judges, the less one
loves. Honoré de Balzac
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of
friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is a symbol of eternity.
It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all
memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. Love is, above all, the gift of
oneself. Jean Anouilh
Love does not care to define and
is never in a hurry to do so. Charles
du Bos
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
Love makes time pass; time makes
love pass. French Proverb
Love is a Mystery.
You can't find it; it has to find
you. ~Author Unknown
The supreme happiness of life is
the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in
spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo
Love tells
Love is when you meet someone who
tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton
Love is good sense
People think love is an emotion.
Love is good sense. Ken Kesey
Love is space and time measured by the heart. Marcel
Proust
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from
both sides. David Viscott