LOVE
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“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. It does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” – Apostle Paul – 1 COR. 13: 4-8 - HOLY SCROPTURES – (Perhaps the greatest definition for love in history)
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
The best proof of love is trust. – Dr. Joyce Brothers
The most romantic of all is to know the perils of marriage, and to get married anyway. – David Maloof
Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back. – John Ruskin
Death is a challenge. It tells you not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. – Leo Buscaglia
Let us hope we all were preceded in this world by a love story. – Brilliant!
“They drank from the same glass as one who would drink from the same lily.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. – Bette Midler
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. – Voltaire
“I wouldn’t leave you in times of trouble, / we never could have come this far. / I took the bad times, / I’ll take the good times, / I’ll take you just the way you are.” – Billy Joel – JUST THEWAY YOU ARE
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister our tongue or lips. They make others good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls—and a beautiful image it is. – Blaise Pascal
I’ve learned that you should never say “no” to a gift from a child. – Andy Rooney
He who can’t forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. – George Herbert
Beside the act of saving someone’s life, perhaps the greatest act in the human experience is the personal sacrifice we make when we forgive someone. – Gary Pulliam
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instructions. – Annie Sullivan
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love, and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. – Napoleon Bonaparte
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“No one has greater love than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends.” – Jesus Christ – John 15:13 – Apostle John – HOLY SCRIPTURES
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with their heart. – Helen Keller
Love is when Mommy gives Dad the best piece of chicken. – Elaine (age 5)
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth, than adore me for telling you lies. – Pietro Aretino
I’ve learned that having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful things in the world. – Andy Rooney
Forgiveness is love practiced among people who love poorly. It sets us free without wanting anything in return. – Henry Nouwen
Love is too young to know what conscience is. – William Shakespeare
Though communicating is probably the most essential skill for sustaining any loving relationship, we seem to be talking to ourselves most of the time. – Leo Buscaglia – LOVING EACH OTHER
Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day. – MaryAnn (4)
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels beneath her. Still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. – Victor Hugo
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. – Marilyn Monroe
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. – Carl Sagan
A man has only one escape from his own self—to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes. – Clare Boothe Luce
Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. – Theodore Roosevelt
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. – Alice Walker
I go back to the kind of movie when a girl says, ‘I love you,’ it’s a declaration, not a demonstration. – Bob Hope
Your heart is my piñata. – Chuck Palaniuk
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we have into eternity. – Helen Hayes
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I’m with you. – Ray Croft
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“I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, that you have love among yourselves.” – Jesus Christ by Apostle John – John 13:34, 35 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
“As my life spills into yours / changing with the hours, / filling up the world with time / turning time to flowers, I can show you all the things / that I never sang to one man before.” – Judy Collins – SINCE YOU ASKED – Judy Collins
Remember, behind every cynic is a romantic, and probably an injured one. – Glenn Beck
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – George Carlin
Saying “I love you,” is not a message, but a conversation. – Leo Buscaglia
I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. – Andy Rooney
The dream is not the destination, but the journey. – Diane Sawyer
“The heart that saturates itself with love acts as a divine salt that preserves it. Affection keeps it fresh in old age.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend you hate. – Nikka (age 6)
My mother never kissed me; she never put her arms around me and hugged me or told me she loved me. I spent my childhood in fear of her, hiding from her, avoiding her critical gaze. – Roberta Satow – DOING THE RIGHT THING: TAKING CARE OF YOUR ELDERLY PARENTS EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T TAKE CARE OF YOU
Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. – Georges Santayana
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. – Vic Putnum
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. – John Ruskin
Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure that the taste is OK. – Danny (age 7)
“I resolve to call her up / a thousand times a day, / Ask her if she’ll marry me / in some old fashion way, / But my silent tears have gripped me / long before I reach the phone, / Long before my tongue has tripped me, / Must I always be alone. / Every little thing she does is magic,/ Everything she does just turns me on, / Even though my life before was tragic, / Now I know my love for her goes on.” – The Police – EVERY LITTLE THING SHE DOES IS MAGIC – Sting
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. – Aristotle
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“Above all things have intense love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.” – Apostle Peter – 1 Peter 4:8 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Talk is not wasted affection. Affection is never wasted. – Henry W. Longfellow
Isolation is a punishment that feels forced upon you. Solitude is aloneness that you choose and embrace. Great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place that is all quiet, except the beating of your heart. – Jeanne Laskes
Some persons spend their whole lifetime searching endlessly for that special person who will change their life, and it never crosses their mind that the person might be themselves. – Unknown
Good listeners are as rare as sensitive speakers. Sharing, so vital to loving in communication, stops when you sense the other person has ceased listening. – Leo Buscaglia – LOVING EACH OTHER
I’ve learned that love, not time, heals old wounds. – Andy Rooney
“And remember this – each new day is a kiss, / sent from up above – with an angel’s love. / So here’s to you – may your skies be blue, / and your love be blessed – That’s my best to you.” –MY BEST TO YOU – Joni Mitchell
A person needs just three things in this world to be happy—Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. – Tom Bodett
Do not believe those persons who say they’ve never been jealous. What they mean is they have never been in love. – Gerald Brenan – THOUGHTS IN A DRY SEASON
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love; I only stepped in it a few times. – Rita Rudner
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil – Victor Hugo
Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other. – Karl (age 5)
Love is what’s left in a relationship after all selfishness has been removed. – Cullen Hightower
Any love that lasts becomes a LOVE STORY. A marriage, for example, is a shared story. The partners grow in love partly on the basis of shared memories, and partly on the conviction they are on the journey together. In having children, they bring them into the story and introduce them to the characters – aunts, uncles, and grandparents—who are already part of it. It is an expression of confidence that the story ought to be continued. – William H. Kirkpatrick – WHY JOHNNY CAN’T TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG
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“Do not owe anything to anyone except to love one another; for whoever loves his fellow man fulfills the Law.” – Jesus Christ – John 13:8 – Apostle John – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Loving your enemies may be a lot to ask, but how about treating your friends a little better. – Anonymous…but a personal favorite
While we have the gift of life, it seems that the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. – Gilda Radner
Infrequent verbal expressions of love are like trying to fit old shoes on a teenager—they just don’t fit. You can never go back. – Leo Buscaglia – LOVE
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat threadbare, water passed through his shoes, and the stars shined through his soul. – Victor Hugo
“And in the end, the love you take / is equal to, the love you make.” – The Beatles – CARRY THAT WEIGHT / THE END – Lennon & McCartney
Do what you love and you will find a way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins
Loves 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
“Wishes are the dreams we dream when we’re awake.” – Irene Dunne to Charles Boyer – LOVE AFFAIR
Under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be loved. – Andy Rooney
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lost. – Bob Hope
Hugging can lift depression. It breathes fresh life into a tired body and makes you feel younger and more vibrant. – Dr. Harold Voth – (Psychiatrist) – Menninger Foundation
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. – Peter Ustinov
The reason a dog has so many friends—he wags his tail instead of his tongue. – Anonymous
A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, even though her heart is breaking. – Helen Steiner Rice
You really shouldn’t say “I love you” unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. – Jessie (age 8)
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. – Martin Buxbaum
If we are to judge love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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“But besides all these things, clothe yourself with love, for it is a perfect bond of union.” – Apostle Paul – Col. 3:14 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
I’ve learned that I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way. – Andy Rooney
We can forgive only when we perceive these wrongdoers with compassion—as vulnerable, imperfect human beings like ourselves, capable of weakness, cowardice and frailty. – Leo Buscaglia – LOVING EACH OTHER
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? – Lily Tomlin
When my grandmother got arthritis she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So now my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love. – Rebecca (age 8)
Without forgiveness there is no future. – Desmond Tutu
The one who loves least controls the relationship. – Unknown
Love is a four-letter word, but you don’t hear it as often as some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of the times that everybody talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love. – Thomas Sowell
Love’s greatest gift is to make everything it touches sacred. – Barbara De Angelis
If a relationship is nurtured by real love, that gives us a definition and a destination of what forever can be. – Gary Pulliam
The supreme happiness is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
Love comes when manipulation stops, when you think more about the other person than about his or her reaction to you, when you dare to reveal yourself fully—when you dare to be vulnerable. – Dr. Joyce Brothers
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. – H. Jackson Browne Jr.
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth. – Billy (Age 4)
Love is a word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. – John Ciardi
Can there be love which does not make demands of its object? – Confucius
Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed by have everlasting life.” – Jesus Christ – John 3:16 – Apostle John – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Lovers are fools, but nature makes us so. – Elbert Hubbard
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. – Benjamin Disraeli
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. – Albert Einstein
Love is a law. Desire is a snare. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. – H. Jackson Browne Jr.
Love is the conviction in which the happiness of another is essential to your own. – Robert A. Heinlein
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. – Lord Byron
To love another is to see the face of God. – Victor Hugo – LES MISERABLES
How times have changed! A few generations ago songs were about love and romance. Most songs now are about sex and violence. And we wonder why modern relationships suffer? – Gary Pulliam
When death to either one shall come – I pray it first be to me. – Robert Bridges
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. – Sigmund Freud
Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” – Eric Fromm
Passionate love always cools, leaving behind enemies instead of friends. – Gary Pulliam
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do. – Josh Billings
Love is a better teacher than duty. – Albert Einstein
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia. – H. L. Mencken
“All of my life I have had a chance of hate and love. I chose love and I am here.” – A. R. Rahman, accepting his Academy Award for the music score of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
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“Do not be loving the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; because everything in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one’s means of life—does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world.” – Apostle John – 1 John 2:15,16 –The HOLY SCRIPTURES
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs after the infatuation is over. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
During my piano recital, I was on stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that so I wasn’t scared anymore. – Cindy (age 5)
Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage. – Ambrose Bierce
Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. – Mohandas Gandhi
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim, he would not have chosen a suit by it. – Maurice Chevalier
You can’t buy love but you can pay heavily for it. – Henny Youngman
Love – A wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart that weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. – Anonymous
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. – Alphra Behn
The love we give away is the only love we keep. – Elbert Hubbard
Continual bliss as love’s evidence does not exist. It must be fed by affection, generosity and appreciation. – Gary Pulliam
The concept of romantic love affords a means of manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. – Kate Millett
A false enchantment can last a lifetime. – W. H. Auden
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and softly purify the heart. – Washington Irving
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“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law? He said to him:“You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind. This is the greatest and first commandment.” The second, like it, is this: “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 22:36-39 – writer Apostle Matthew –The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Real love stories never have endings. – Richard Bach
Love is but a discovery of ourselves in others, and delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. – Isaac Disraeli
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. – Julien Barnes
When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you. – Karen (age 7)
“Once when I was young and true, someone left me sad. Broke my brittle heart in two, and that was very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke, and that I think is worse.” – Dorothy Parker – A VERY SHORT SONG
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. – Jane Austen
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in honoring the differences, not simply enjoying the similarities. – James L. Frederickson
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not happiness. – Euripides
All the pictures that hung in my mind before I knew you have faded and given place to our radiant moments together. Now I cannot live apart from you...Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. – Sarah Bernhardt
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russell
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love isn’t love at all. – Toni Morrison – BELOVED
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. – Frances Bacon
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. – Germaine De Steel.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde
If you judge people, you have not time to love them. – Mother Theresa
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“Now, however, these three remain—faith, hope love; but the greatest of these is love.” – Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 13:13 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. – Henry David Thoreau
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken
Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired. – Terri (age 4)
We all suffer from the the preoccupation that there exists…in the loved, perfection. – Sidney Portier
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than we do: Men a longer life than dogs do: Dogs a longer life than love does. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Love means never having to say I’m sorry.” – Erich Segal – LOVE STORY - (A dreadful statement)
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak – Michael Garrett Marino - (What does this mean?)
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. – Leo Buscaglia
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. – Oscar Wilde
A man’s kiss is his signature. – Mae West
I never met a man I didn’t like. – Will Rogers
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. – James Thurber
The one who loves least controls the relationship. - Anonymous
