Love
Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad. It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weakness. Love is content with the present. It hopes for the future and it doesn’t brood over the past. It’s the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it is not enough, so search for it, ask God for it, and share it!
Author Unknown
Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines
and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now, real
and true, the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator of our favourite
memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams. Love is a promise that is
always kept, a fortune that can never be spent, a seed that can flourish in even the
most unlikely of places. And this radiance that never fades, this mysterious and
magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all - one known only by those who love.
Thomas a Kempis, 1379-1471
Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is
heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.
It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and
mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any
outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength,
pleads no excuse of impossibility. It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it
completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it
is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes
through all.
Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
Sir Hugh Walpole, 1884-1941
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase.
This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort
of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. l. 799
Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love you.
II, ii, 115
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], 70 - 19 B.C., Ibid. l. 69
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. Omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori.
George Sand [Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant], 1804 - 1876, Letter to Linda Calamatta
[March 31, 1862]
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837 - 1909, A Match [1866], st. 1
If love were what the rose is, and I were like the leaf, our lives would grow together in sad or singing weather.
Elivis Presley, 1935 - 1977, Love Me Tender [1956]
Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.
Henry Drummond
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Rainer Maria Rilke
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
Aphra Behn
Each moment of a happy love’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Christopher Marlowe
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
La Bruyere
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
St. Augustine
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Les Miserables
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy,or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Stendhal
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Thoreau
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Leo F. Buscaglia
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Dr. Karl Menninger
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
William M. Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, b. 1906
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and
flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but
living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.
Soren Kierkegaard
Don’t forget to love yourself.
Alicia Barnhart
True love never dies, for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
Abraham Crowley
A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
John Donne
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Benjamin Franklin
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Henry Ward Beecher
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Don Byas
You call it madness, but I call it love.
Buddha
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Ingrid Bergman
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Will Moss
Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
……..and that is love nevre "die"!!!!-18-
