LOVE
IS.........
"Love is a great beautifier." ~Louisa May Alcott~
"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." ~Louisa May Alcott~
"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right. Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." ~Woody Allen~
"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 made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd." ~Louis Aragon~
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." ~Aristotle~
"Love is the victim's response to the rapist." ~Ti-Grace Atkinson~
"Love is an attraction between two, as basic as the atom's glue, combining separate elements to form one." ~Basil Baker & Company,
"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."~Julian Barnes~
"Love is the river of life in the world." ~Henry Ward Beecher~
"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." ~Bible, Corinthians 13:4-7~
"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life." ~Smiley Blanton~
"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself." ~Leo Buscaglia~
"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.?" ~Truman Capote~
"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith." ~Thomas Carlyle~
"Love is blind." ~Chaucer~
"Love is a light that never dims
Like the deepest passion is the ultimate sin" ~Mary B. Coger~
"Love is a tyrant sparing none." ~Pierre Corneille~
"Love is an energy - it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die." ~Bryce Courtney~
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." ~Joan Crawford~
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny." ~Quentin Crisp~
"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding." ~Bette Davis~
"Love is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell." ~Emily Dickinson~
"Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.? ~Lord Drewar~
"Love is not in our choice but in our fate." ~John Dryden~
"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other." ~Euripides~
"Love is a friendship caught on fire." ~Northern Exposure~
"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality." ~Victor Frankel~
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." ~Erich Fromm~
"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 is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~Robert Frost~
love is painful
that is true
not to love is painful too;
but there is a greater pain:
to love and not be loved again
~John Fussle~
"Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly." ~Louis Ginsberg~
"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence." ~Vincent Van Gogh~
"Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." ~Rabbi Julins Gordon~
Love is of the phoenix kind,
and burns itself with self-made fire,
to breed still new birds in the mind,
from ashes of the old desire.
~Fulke Greville~
"Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come." ~Groening, "Love is Hell, Dedicated to Nietzsche~
"Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world." ~David B. Haight~
"Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe." ~Novalis Hardenberg~
"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." ~Louise L. Hay~
"Love is a hole in the heart." ~Ben Hecht~
Love is that condition
in which the
happiness of another
person is essential to your own.
~ Robert Heinlein~
"Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe." ~Nik Hertl~
"Love is what's left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed." ~Cullen Hightower~
"Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections." ~Mangnu Hirschfield~
"Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important." ~Lisa Hoffman~
"Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes~
"Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing." ~Doug Horton~
"Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.? ~ Curtis Judalet ~
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same." ~Helen Keller~
"Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love." ~Thomas ã Kempis~
"Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you." ~Helene Lagerberg~
"Love is inseparable from knowledge." ~St. Macarius of Egypt~
"Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation." ~Jose Marti [ 1853 - 1895], Amor [1881]~
"Love is a flame which burns in heaven, and whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love that we are double our being; it is by love that we approach GOD." ~Aimmee Martin~
"Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." ~W. Somerset Maugham~
"Love is broad; if you love someone, you love all things, not just their beauty. Love is narrow; you love one and only one, compared to them, no one matters." ~A. McBraxton~
"Love, it is a flower and you its only seed. " ~Amanda McBroom~
"Love is a precious resource that requires replenishing." ~Terri McPherson,
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." ~H. L. Mencken~
"Love is not blind- It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less." ~Will Moss~
"Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come." ~Nietchze~
"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense." ~Mark Overby~
"Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power." ~Ovid~
"Love is like quick-silver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." ~Dorothy Parker~
"Love is the greatest refreshment in life." ~Pablo Picasso~
"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. " ~Jules Renard~
"Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late." ~Mary Roberts Rhinehart~
"Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out." ~Nick Richardson~
"Love is something so painfully monotonous that is must be acknowledged, and so brutally alluring that it cannot be ignored." ~R. Ridge~
"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives." ~Bertrand Russell~
"Loving is not just caring deeply, it's, above all, understanding." ~Francoise Sagan~
"Love is a spirit of all compact of fire." ~William Shakespeare~
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
~William Shakespeare~
What is love? 'tis not thereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come and kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
~William Shakespeare, Close-Up: Twelfth Night, act 2, scene 3~
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." ~Alexander Smith~
Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.? ~Wolfman Jack Smith~
"Romantic love is still the dominant motif of the novel, the poem, the movie, and music. It is the holy grail, pursued with reckless abandon." ~R.C. Sproul~
"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." ~ Germain de Stael ~
"Love is something like clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything." ~Annie Sullivan~
"Love is friendship set on fire." ~Jeremy Taylor~
"Love is the only gold." ~Lord Alfred Tennyson~
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." ~Mother Teresa~
"Love is life.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
Everything is united by it alone.
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall
return to the general and eternal source."
~Leo Tolstoy~
"Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world." ~Ralph Waldo Trine~
"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." ~Miguel de Unamuno~
Love is something eternal;
the aspect may change,
but not the essence.
~Vincent Van Gogh~
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." ~Voltaire~
"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here." ~Marianne Williamson~
"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." ~Sandy Wilson~
"Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever been and more susceptible to heartbreak than I want to be." ~WNR~
"Love is more than a feeling, it is more than an experience, it is the manifested presence of God, the glory of God. Remember God is Love, so when you experience true Love you are experiencing God's glorious presence. Notice the second fruit is joy, love is the ultimate joy that can be experienced. (Psalms 16:11) You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
"Love is the highest calling and the greatest relationship with God. (Colossians 3:14) But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. (Ephesians 5:1-2) Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. {2} And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. (Jude 1:20-21 NKJV) But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, {21} keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."
Love is falling in Love with Love itself....Me....;-)