MY WRITERS SITE: 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