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What
the world needs now is love, sweet love;
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
Bacharach/David
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Surely it
is not true blessedness to be free from sorrow
while
there is sorrow and sin in the worlds; sorrow is then
a
part of love, and love does not seek to throw it off.
George Eliot
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Love
does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking
outward in the same direction.
Antoine
de Saint-Exupery
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
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Though
I speak with the tongues of people and of angels, but have
not love,
I have become sounding brass or a clanging
cymbal. And though I have
the gift of prophecy, and
understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and though I
have faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have
not love,
I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned,
but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not
envy;
love does not parade
itself, is not puffed up;
does
not behave rudely, does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity, but
rejoices
in the truth;
bears all things, believes all
things,
hopes all things,
endures all things. Love never fails.
The
Apostle Paul
I Corinthians 13, 1-8
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The
supreme happiness of life is the conviction
that we are
loved;
loved for ourselves,
or rather loved in spite of
ourselves.
Victor
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Whoever loves much, does much.
Thomas a Kempis |
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When you
commit yourself to
living love,
you feel at peace
with yourself because
you are
at harmony with the flow of life.
Viewing life from the highest
perspective,
you feel confident
and secure. You
realize
that
no matter how things may
appear,
you are loved and
protected.
You
know you
are one with God,
and
you
bring your peace with you
wherever
you go. You’re not
looking for love,
but for
opportunities to love.
Susan
L. Taylor
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Talk not of wasted affection, affection
never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters,
returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall
fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the
fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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To
love very much is to love inadequately; we love--that is
all.
Love cannot be modified without being nullified.
Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love
means the body,
the soul, the life, the entire being. We
feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood,
we breathe
love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we
hold our thoughts.
Nothing more exists for us. Love is
not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four
letters.
Guy
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I remember the morning
that I first asked the meaning of the word "love. .
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Miss Sullivan put her arm gently round me and
spelled into my hand, "I love Helen."
"What is love?" I asked. . . .
"Love is something like the clouds that were in the
sky before the sun came out," she replied. . . .
"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.
Without love you would not be happy or
want to play."
The beautiful truth burst upon my mind--I felt that these
were invisible lines
stretched between my spirit and the
spirits of others.
Helen
Keller |
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There is
nothing holier in this life of ours than the first
consciousness of love--
the first fluttering of its silken
wings--the first rising sound and breath of that wind
which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or
destroy.
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Love is everything.
Jane Siberry |
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Infantile
love follows the principle: "I love because I am
loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved
because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
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Love is much nicer to
be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a
higher tax bracket,
or a holding pattern over
Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst |
The only way to speak
the truth
is to speak lovingly.
Henry David Thoreau |
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Not where
I breathe, but where I love, I live.
Robert Southwell |
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It is essential that our love be
liberating,
not possessive. We must at all
times give
those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms
the other
as other. It does not
possess and manipulate
another as mine. . . .
To love is
to liberate. Love and
friendship
must empower those we love to become
their
best selves, according to
their own lights and visions.
John
Powell
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Love
is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, generous,
strong,
patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering,
and
never seeking her own; for wheresoever people
seek their
own, there they fall from love.
Thomas a Kempis
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Love
for God is the farthest reach of all stations,
the sun of
the highest degrees, and there is no station
after that
of love, except its fruit and its consequences.
Al-Ghazzali
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Never in the world does hatred cease
by hatred; hatred ceases by love.
Buddha
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One word frees us of all the weight
and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
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Love is
the great transformer, turning ambition into aspiration,
selfishness
into service, greed into gratitude,
getting into giving and demands
into dedication.
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You
must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon.
The
more things you love, the more you are interested in,
the more you
enjoy, the more you are indignant about--the more
you have left when
anything happens.
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When you
give away some of the light from the candle,
by lighting another
person's candle there isn't less light
because you've given some
away--there's more.
That works with love, too.
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Agape
means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities
which
he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because
it is a self
capable of experiencing happiness and misery
and endowed with the
power to choose between good and evil.
The love of humans is
thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.
Obert
C. Tanner
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Love for the joy
of loving, and not
for the offerings of someone else's heart.
Marlene
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You
must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases
them or
not;
the object of love is to serve, not to win.
Woodrow
Wilson
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How
terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe,
that once
they are in love they have nothing to do but live
happily ever after,
they have nothing further to learn.
Gerald
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But not for
another twenty years would I understand that the vibration in my
grandparents' house was love. That is a conceptual
understanding that had to be guided by an intuition, which then
was nourished by a lot of reading and reflection. My
grandparents were in love. They loved each other. They
loved their children and grandchildren, and were loved in return,
though probably not quite as much. Their children loved one
another, the way sisters and brothers do. My grandfather and
grandmother loved God, each in his or her own special and
sometimes peculiar ways; and their love for God was reciprocated,
in some graceful proportion.
It was not
my grandparents' love for each other, or for their children, or
for me, that made the air hum in the twilight. No particular
expression or impression of love caused that vibration, but love
itself, ever so briefly made perceptible. Love sounded a
chord now and again, this chord of intense pleasure tinged with
melancholy, to remind me that all of the component notes had been
ringing there for generations. In visual terms, it was like
noticing all at once that the rainbow of colors flowing from a
prism is derived from a ray of pure sunlight.
Daniel Mark
Epstein
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I
will greet this day with love in my heart. And
how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on
all things with love and
I will be born again. I
will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will
love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will
love the light for it shows me
the way; yet I will
love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I
will
welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I
will endure sadness
for it opens my soul. I will
acknowledge rewards for they are my due;
yet I will
welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
Og Mandino
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say
that love is the
reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity.
Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my
name.
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Love
all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in
it. Love every leaf,
every ray of God's light. Love the
animals,
love the plants, love everything. If you
love
everything,
you will perceive the divine mystery in
things. Once you perceive
it,
you will begin to
comprehend it better every day. And you will
come at last
to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
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Because the word
"love" is often loosely used to describe a variety
of feelings and relationships, it can be easy to become
confused about love's real meaning. Society today tends
to define love as a romantic expression for someone of the
opposite sex. But it's possible to think of love in much
broader terms: the basic feeling of goodwill for
another, care for their health and well-being, and the desire
to have only good come to them. This includes our
parents, siblings, friends, and everyone!
Love is the ideal and the dream, in some manner of expression,
of every person who lives, for in the Creator's Love were our
souls conceived and in Love lies our destiny to express.
We are fulfilled when we are in the state of love, and somehow
emptied without it. Love becomes the purpose of our
being alive when we sprang from the celestial womb.
Although there have been billions of words written about love
in its many expressions, not one--or all--of them can fully
capture the essence of love.
Sometimes when we think we know someone, we're actually loving
what we think the other person may be able to give us.
This can be an aspect of "conditional" love.
Love at its highest level demands nothing in return. It
loves for the sake of loving. It is not concerned with what
or whom it loves, nor is it concerned with whether or
not love is returned. Like the sun, its joy is in the
shining forth of its nature.
Love is an inner quality that sees good everywhere and in
everybody. It insists that all is good, and by refusing
to see anything but good, it tends to cause that quality to
appear uppermost in itself and in other things. Love
takes no notice of faults, imagined or otherwise. Love
is considered the great harmonizer and healer in life.
John
Marks Templeton
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