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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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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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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
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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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The
supreme happiness of life is the conviction
that we are
loved; loved for ourselves,
or rather loved in spite of
ourselves. |
Victor
Hugo |
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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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Whoever loves much, does much.
Thomas a Kemper |
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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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Guy
de Maupassant
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
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Antoine
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Love
does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking
outward in the same direction. |
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Helen
Keller
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
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| Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
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. |
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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."
Erich Fromm |
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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. |
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.
anonymous |
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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.
Ethel Barrymore |
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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.
anonymous |
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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
Dietrich |
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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
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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
Vann |
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