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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

What is love?



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



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 most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.



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

love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.




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