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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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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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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.
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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
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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must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases
them or
not;
the object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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
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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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| Love for the joy
of loving, and not
for the offerings of someone else's heart.
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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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| 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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| 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.
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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
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.
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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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| 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
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
de Maupassant
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Whoever loves much, does much.
-Thomas a Kempis
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The only way to speak
the truth
is to speak lovingly. -Henry David Thoreau
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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 greatest medicine. I ask to be
healing medicine for others. I ask my heart
to expand its boundaries and to love others as they
wish to be loved. I ask my heart
to expand its boundaries and
open to my being loved as I wish to be loved.
-Julia Cameron
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Where
love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
-Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
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Love, like the opening of the heavens to the
saints, shows for a moment,
even to the dullest person, the
possibilities of the human race.
One has faith, hope, and
charity for another being,
perhaps but the creation of the imagination; still it is
a great advance for a
person to
be profoundly loving,
even in his or her imagination. -Arthur Helps
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Love is the only service that
power
cannot command and money cannot buy.
-Anon
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There is
no surprise more
magical than
the surprise
of being loved: it is God's
finger on a human being's
shoulder. -Charles
Morgan
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It
is only the souls that do
not love
that go empty
in this
world. -Robert
Hugh Benson
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Hyla Brook
By June our brook's run out of song and speed.
Sought for much after that, it will be found
Either to have gone groping underground
(And taken with it all the Hyla breed
That shouted in the mist a month ago,
Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow)--
Or flourished and come up in jewel-weed,
Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent
Even against the way its waters went.
Its bed is left a faded paper sheet
Of dead leaves stuck together by the heat--
A brook to none but who remember long.
This as it will be seen is other far
Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song.
We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost
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Anything will give
up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have
I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the
little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have
found that when I silently commune with people
they give
up their secrets also--if you love them enough.
-George Washington
Carver
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Do not be afraid of showing your affection.
Be warm and tender,
thoughtful and affectionate.
People are more helped by sympathy,
than by service;
love is more than money, and a kind word
will give more
pleasure than a present. -John Lubbock
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The truth is
that there is only one terminal dignity--love. And the
story of a love is not important--what is important is that one is capable
of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-Helen Hayes
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Don't
go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair. . . .
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are
Billy Joel
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True love's
the gift which God has given
To humans alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
Walter Scott
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We came here because
the earth is abundant and alive--a rich, rich field
of
lessons for us to learn. The lessons are not
comfortable,
because if we weren't challenged, it would
mean that we didn't need
to learn these lessons of the
soul: courage, patience, faith, learning to love,
embracing eternal life, and the most magical lesson of
all: It's not what I do,
it's knowing I am. We
are here to learn about love, to let others love us,
to
discover that love is a living force--real, broad,
encompassing.
I have also learned that universal
love is there for me,
and will be there for me, if I'm
open to it and believe in it. -Melody Beattie
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Everything
we love, no doubt, will pass away,
perhaps tomorrow,
perhaps thousands of years later.
Neither it nor our love
for it is any the less valuable for that reason.
-John Passmore
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You are as prone to love
as the sun is to shine;
it being the most
delightful and natural employment
of the soul of humans. -Thomas
Traherne
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Familiar acts are beautiful
through love. -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Let me not to the marriage of
true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
William Shakespeare
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We are shaped and fashioned
by what
we love. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Things are beautiful
if you love them. -Jean Anouilh
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Until I truly loved, I was
alone. -Caroline Norton
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In wise love each divines the high secret
self of the other,
and, refusing to believe in the mere
daily self, creates a mirror
where the lover or beloved
sees an image to copy in daily life.
-William Butler Yeats
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Age
does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent,
protects you from age. -Jeanne
Moreau
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Just
as energy begets energy, so,
I have discovered, love begets
love. -Tom
Sullivan
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It's
not the length but the quality of life that matters to me.
It
has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time,
to
live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms,
often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion
but
because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline,
kindness,
and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love,
and not
fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.
-Jane
Rule
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We must evolve
for all human conflict a method
which rejects revenge, aggression, and
retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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One word
frees us from all the weight
and pain of life: That word is
Love. -Sophocles
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God's greatest gifts to us--as Diane Warren says in her
song "You Were Loved": "You'll hold
this world's most priceless thing / The greatest gift
this life can bring / If you can look back and know / You
were loved." But we tend to forget that in order to
be loved, we must love. We must learn to love
unconditionally, and the gift of love includes so many
other elements that it's impossible to list them all: tolerance, forgiveness, gratitude, acceptance, giving,
taking. In his
book The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm calls love an
art, and as with any art, he says that it must be
cultivated, cared for, learned. It doesn't come naturally
to us--we must develop our capacity to love. It's not
that squishy feeling inside that makes us so nervous when
we meet that "special someone"--that feeling
wears off eventually, leaving us wondering "what
happened?"
How often do we have to
hear wise people tell us that love is more than something
that we "fall" into? Can we read Paul's words
about love in Corinthians (see above) and
actually live out those ideas, making them a part of how
we act and how we treat others? I hope so. I have to
admit, I'm not all that good at it yet, but I'm working
at it. I hope that someday I have some wise words of my
own to add to the subject. . .
tom
walsh
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