Love

<as he laughs uncontrollably, running to tell all the other men.....>

"It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, living close to nature. "
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing ... I just helped him cry."

True Love ~

A true love doesn't waiver
When gale winds start to blow
The steel in love is delicate
Yet imperishionable, you know.....

Karen Shaw Matteson


I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.

~ William Shakespeare

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river.

~ Madagascan Saying ~

"Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance."

~~Victor E. Frankl (from Man's Search for Meaning)



"Lust will not keep. Something must be done about it."

~~(Inscription on the entrance gate to the Yashiwara) {the red light district of feudal Tokyo}

"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different imitations of it."

~~ Francois, duc de La Rochefoucault, Reflections ou sentences et maximes morales.

"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: For thy love is better than wine."

~~ The Bible: The Song of Songs


"Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on this wall."

~~ Doug Fetherline, 'Your Absence Has Not Taught Me'


"Everyman gets the wife he deserves."

~~ Midrash: Psalms Rabbah


"If passion drives, let reason hold the reins."

~~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac


"The eyes start love: intimacy perfects it."

~~ Publilius Syrus, Sententiae


"Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool."

~~ Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills: 'Three and -- an Extra'


"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed
Such seems your beauty still."

~~ William Shakespeare, 'Sonnet 104'

In honor of Valentine's Day:


"Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks..."
--John Dunne

"Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart."
--Euripides

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
--Robert Heinlein

"Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart."
--Alphonse Marie de la Martine

"I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."
--Vita Sackville-West

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
--George Sand

"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes
the ride worthwhile." (Franklin P. Jones)

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
--Rabbi Julius Gordon

Misti,
...Your story about the little boy, reminded me of a time , a few years ago, when I was in a state of depression, when I sit in my room and started crying to release it. My grandson,Three at the time, wondered in and leaned against my lap looked on my eyes and started silently crying also. It helped. I love that kid more than anything on this earth.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is the 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

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.
Francesca M. Cancian
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and
know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

The only means of strengthening one's intellect
is to make up one's mind about nothing--
To let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
John Keats

Love these quotes.

Love is a simple biochemical process that can be included in several simple equations.

Just found this thread - looks like I've got a lot of reading to do, and some searching for my favourite quotes, too.

Back when I have the time. KP

Love is all
Love is ALL, there is nothing else. Sometimes people accept it, or people use it, or people bask in it, or people try to abuse it- thereby hurting themselves, and sometimes people reject it... moving swiftly toward the bitterness of darkness as does Lucifer

LOVE QUOTES

1) Mark Twain
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.


2) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou art to me a delicious torment.


3) Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.


4) Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.


5) Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.


6) Roy Croft
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.


7) Ingrid Bergmen
A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.


8) Rabrindranath Tagore
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.


9) Sir Winston Churchill
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.


10) Kahlil Gibran
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.


~ Simran Khurana


CUTE LOVE QUOTES

1) Cute Love Quote by Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?


2) Cute Love Quote by James Baldwin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.


3) Cute Love Quote by G. Moore
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.


4) Cute Love Quote by Thomas Moore
Came but for friendship, and took away love.


5) Cute Love Quote by Leo Buscaglia
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.


6) Cute Love Quote by Montaigne
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: "Because it was he; because it was me."


7) Cute Love Quote by Kyle Schmidt
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.


8) Cute Love Quote by Joan Crawford
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.


9) Cute Love Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.


10) Cute Love Quote by Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

"Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's
called falling in love, because you don't force
yourself to fall, you just fall."
~ Unknown ~
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"Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman,
but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man."
~ Unknown ~
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"It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,
an hour to like someone, and an day to love someone...
but it takes a lifetime to forget someone."
~ Unknown ~
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"It breaks your heart to see the one you love is happy
with someone else, but it's more painful to know that
the one you love is unhappy with you."
~ Unknown ~
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"If love is the answer,
can you please repeat the question?"
~ Unknown ~
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"Faith makes all things possible.
Love makes them easy."
~ Unknown
"I believe that to truly Love, is the ultimate
expression of the will to live. A heart that
truly loves is forever young."
~ Unknown ~
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"Love makes life so confusing, but without love
would you really want to live?"
~ Unknown ~
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"Do you love me because I am beautiful
or am I beautiful because I am loved?"
~ Unknown ~
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"Love me now, love me never,
but if you love me, love me forever."
~ Unknown ~
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"Three things of life that are most valuable -
Love, self-confidence & friends."
~ Unknown ~
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"To the world you may be just one person,
but to one person you may be the world."
~ Unknown ~
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"Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell."
~ Unknown ~
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"Who do you turn to when the only person
in the world that can stop you from crying,
is exactly the one making you cry?"
~ Unknown ~
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"He taught me how to love,
but not how to stop."
~ Unknown ~
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal."
~ Unknown ~
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"We come to love not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
~ Unknown ~
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"Many a young lady does not realize just how strong
her love for a young man is until he fails to pass
the approval test with her parents."
~ Unknown ~
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"Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her
than a man she loves."
~ Unknown ~
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"Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says 'For the
woman I love' and the second, 'For my best friend.'"
~ Unknown ~
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"A good marriage is like a casserole,
only those responsible for it really
know what goes in it."
~ Unknown ~
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"No one is perfect until you fall in love with them."
~ Unknown ~
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"Love, true love, is that which can give the most
without asking or demanding anything in return."
~ Mazie Hammond ~
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"Where there is love, there is God also."
~ Leo Tolstoy ~
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"All, everything that I understand,
I understand only because I love."
~ Leo Tolstoy ~
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"Love cures people -- both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it."
~ Dr. Karl Ménage ~
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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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"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship
and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it
will not be created for years or even generations."
~ Khalil Gibran ~
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"When they asked me what I loved most about life,
I smiled and said you."
~ Tina ~
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"Just because you know someone doesn't mean you love them,
and just because you don't know people doesn't mean you can't
love them. You can fall in love with a complete stranger in a
heartbeat, if God planned that route for you. So open your heart
to strangers more often. You never know when God will throw
that pass at you."
~ Heather Grove ~
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"Love... What is love? Love is to love someone
for who they are, who they were, and who they will be."
~ Chris Moore ~
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"Why do you say you love me,
if you are only going to leave me?"
~ Julia ~
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"Love is like a river, always changing,
but always finding you again somewhere
down the road."
~ Kelly Elaine ~
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"Love is a language spoken by everyone,
but understood only by a heart."
~ Shirley Rindani ~
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"People need love even when they don't deserve it."
~ Nikki Ledbetter ~
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"For every word you say,
another piece of my heart you take."
~ Tiara Johnson ~
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"Maybe God put a few bad people in your life,
so when the right one came along you'd be thankful."
~ Andrea Kiefer ~
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"Love the heart that hurts you,
But never hurt the heart that loves you."
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"Love me for a reason,
let the reason be love."
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"It doesn't take a reason to love someone,
but it does to like someone. You don't love
someone because you want to, you love someone
because you are destined too. It's because you
fall in Love with them, that you then try to
find a reason, but you always come up with
the answer, "No reason!"
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"Love is the beginning of all the joy
which nature has store for us."
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"Never say goodbye when you still want to try.
Never give up when you still feel you can take it.
Never say you don't love a person when you can't let go."
~ Dons ~
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"Say "I love you" and mean it,
don't just say it cause you can."

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements,
compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise,
and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.


Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist



The greatest weakness of most humans
is their hesitancy to tell others
how much they love them
while they're still alive.


Orlando A. Battista



To fall in love is easy,
even to remain in it is not difficult;
our human loneliness is cause enough.
But is a hard quest worth making
to find a comrade through whose steady presence
one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.


Anna Strong

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements,
compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise,
and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.


Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist



The greatest weakness of most humans
is their hesitancy to tell others
how much they love them
while they're still alive.


Orlando A. Battista



To fall in love is easy,
even to remain in it is not difficult;
our human loneliness is cause enough.
But is a hard quest worth making
to find a comrade through whose steady presence
one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.


Anna Strong

We need a cynic with all these bleeding hearts!
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. - Matt Groening

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. - Woody Allen

Where there is love, there is pain. - Spanish Proverb

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. - Ambrose Bierce