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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC
What love is....................
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 understanding.
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. John
Wooden
Love is freedon
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 excitement
Love is . . . The excitement of planning things together,
The excitement of doing things together.
Love is patient
Love is being patient with each other's needs and desires.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is
nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent
Van Gogh
Love is acceptance
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is. Anaïs
Nin
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite
independently of the will. … there are no age limits for love. Stendhal
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be
vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly
be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your
heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies
and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or
coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless,
airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable,
impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk
of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be
perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.” C. S.
Lewis, The Four Loves
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most
fatal to true happiness. Bertrand
Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in a
letter to his ten-year-old daughter explaining the importance of evidence in
science and in life
Love is untamed
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
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 inside a room you have fond memories of, one you
haven’t seen in a long time. Haruki
Murakami, Kafka on the Shore.
What Love is............
Love
Is……….
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
gives strength. Love gives courage.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while
loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao
Tzu
Love is
one.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
Love is
life.
Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
Love is
self assurance.
Love me and the world is mine. David
Reed
Love
knows
Love knows no answer for it does not question. Author
Unknown
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
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 is
enduring
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.John Wooden
Love
humbles
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to
speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund
Freud
Love is
pleasurable
The greatest pleasure
of life is love. Euripides
Love is happiness
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 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
Loves believes
Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is endless
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart
can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
Love
defines us
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who
you are. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is
involved
If you wished to be loved, love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love is recognition
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the
delight in the recognition. Alexander
Love is
a risk
Love means to commit yourself without guarantee. Anne Campbell
Love Creates
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's
only promise. Leo Buscaglia
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 is beauty
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is
the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine
Love is
passion
Let the beauty of
what you love be what you do. Rumi
Love is
giving
You can give without loving, but you can never love without
giving. Robert Louis Stevenson
A
Mother’s Love
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between
the heart and the heavenly Father. Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
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
On faith and friendship
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has
risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ― C.S. Lewis
“Some people don't understand the promises they're making
when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the
promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the
Ring
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the
greatest of these is love.” ― Anonymous,
Holy Bible: King James Version
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas
but for scars.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It
is the belief that God will do what is right.” ― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones
“Sometimes beautiful
things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but
we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes
it pays to just have a little faith.” ― Lauren
Kate, Torment
“I am trying here to
prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him:
I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his
claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a
man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.
He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a
poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice.
Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something
worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a
demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not
come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He
has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Never be afraid to
trust an unknown future to a known God.” ―
Corrie ten Boom
“The function of
prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who
prays.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
“And
still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You
owe me."
Look
what happens with love like that.
It
lights up the sky.”
―
Hafez
“You must not lose
faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are
dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” ― Mahatma
Gandhi
“I have come to
accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself
to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing
in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as
we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the
unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that
so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” ― C. JoyBell
“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he
loves.” ― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I
Love
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute,
yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
“I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship
rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The
word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems
like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to
find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to
get what they want.” ― Greg Behrendt
“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot
be taken from us; it is a gift.”
―
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself
the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would
suffice?” ― C.S. Lewis
“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because
they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from
nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head
pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments
when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give
myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson
Mandela
“What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or
was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it
having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it knowing
someone so well that they instantly understood why you did the things you
did—and shared those same beliefs?” ― Richelle
Mead, Last Sacrifice
“A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it
seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of
you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful
thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is
yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll
fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't
have to put it back in the sky again.” ― C.
JoyBell C.
“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will
endure.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of
the King
“This is what the
past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives
is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.” ― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place
“Well, it's true that
I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved,
and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my
opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll
look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The
problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just
smaller slivers, tiny pieces.” ― Sarah
Dessen, This Lullaby
“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to
hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk
away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for
granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together.
Powerful stuff.” ― Jon Katz
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