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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LOVE 9
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Romans 13:9
We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love...
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: 1 John 3:14
Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
St. Theresa of Lisieux (1873-1897, French saint)
Love is the vocation that includes all others.
St. Theresa of Lisieux (1873-1897, French saint)
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
St. Theresa of Lisieux (1873-1897, French saint)
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher)
Love is its own reward.
Helmut Thielicke
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
There is no remedy for love than to love more.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
James Thurber (1894-1961, American humorist, illustrator)
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
James Thurber (1894-1961, American humorist, illustrator)
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber (1894-1961, American humorist, illustrator)
I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian novelist, philosopher)
We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian novelist, philosopher)
My heart is like a singing bird.
Christina Georgina Tossetti
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy (1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman) Author's website: www.briantracy.com
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable; to love all is glorious.
Thomas Traherne (1636-1674, British clergyman, poet, mystic)
You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
Violet Trefusis
Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.
Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1945, American author)
What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941, Russian poet)
Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love
Rev. Dale Turner (American minister)
If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner (1938-, American businessman, founder of CNN)
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth of eternal despair, out of which springs hope and consolation.
Miguel De Unamuno (1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer)
It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel De Unamuno (1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer)
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
Author Unknown
As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.
Author Unknown
But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.
Author Unknown
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts. But if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.
Author Unknown
He who conquers endures.
Author Unknown
I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.
Author Unknown
If ever a man shall live who has infinite power, he will be found to be one who has infinite love.
Author Unknown
If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.
Author Unknown
If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
Author Unknown
If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.
Author Unknown
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
Author Unknown
If we carry any possession from this world, it is the memory of a great love.
Author Unknown
If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.
Author Unknown
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
Author Unknown
In love is no lack.
Author Unknown
Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?
Author Unknown
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never finding the courage to let the person know how you feel.
Author Unknown
It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.
Author Unknown
Laughter is the best medicine.
Author Unknown
Live for love. Without love, you don't live.
Author Unknown
Live simply; love extravagantly.
Author Unknown
Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price being love.
Author Unknown
Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life's hazards, save one-neglect.
Author Unknown
Love is a little word; people make it big.
Author Unknown
Love is a priceless commodity. It's the only thing you can give away and still keep.
Author Unknown
Love is a short word but it contains everything.
Author Unknown
Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late
Author Unknown
Love is the bridge between two hearts.
Author Unknown
Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service and from solitude to kinship with all mankind.
Author Unknown
Love is the one commodity that multiplies when you give it away.... Not only is it the sweet mystery of life, it is the most powerful motivation known to man.
Author Unknown
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Author Unknown
Love laughs at locksmiths.
Author Unknown
Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!
Author Unknown
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
Author Unknown
Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
Author Unknown
LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.
Author Unknown
Man's greatest need is to be loved and, in turn, to love others.
Author Unknown
Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.
Author Unknown
Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.
Author Unknown
No three words have greater power than 'I Love You'.
Author Unknown
Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.
Author Unknown
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
Author Unknown
Take time to love and be loved. It is the privilege of the gods.
Author Unknown
The love you give away is the only love you can keep and carry in your heart.
Author Unknown
The one who loves least controls the relationship.
Author Unknown
The one who loves least controls the relationship.
Author Unknown
The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.
Author Unknown
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Author Unknown
Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live
Author Unknown
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Author Unknown
To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.
Author Unknown
True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in matrimony forever.
Author Unknown
We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.
Author Unknown
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Author Unknown
What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.
Author Unknown
Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.
Veda Upanishads (c. BC 800-, Hindu poetic dialogues on metaphysics)
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike (1932-, American novelist, critic)
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov (1921-, British actor, writer, director)
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
Paul Valery (1871-1945, French poet, essayist)
Tears may be dried up, but the heart never.
Margaret Valois
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726, British playwright and baroque architect)
Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.
A Haiku Verse
I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
Sid Vicious (1957-1979, British punk rocker)
We were two and had but one heart between us.
Francois de Montcorbier Villon (1431-1465, French poet)
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 (1935-, American poet, journalist)
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
Judith Viorst (1935-, American poet, journalist)
Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
Virgil (c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman poet)
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too. "
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-, American novelist)
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-, American novelist)
I believe devoutly in the Word. The Word can save all, destroy all, stop the inevitable, and express the inexpressible.
Nina Voronel
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker (1944-, American author, critic)
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Douglas Yates
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Andy Warhol (1930-, American artist, filmmaker)
The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.
Franz Werfel
A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.
Mae West (1892-1980, American actress)
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Mae West (1892-1980, American actress)
Love conquers all except poverty and a toothache.
Mae West (1892-1980, American actress)
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.
Rebecca West (1892-1983, British author)
I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.
Marcia Wieder (American speaker, trainer, author)
Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.
Marcia Wieder (American speaker, trainer, author)
A weed is but an unloved flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919, American poet, journalist)
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919, American poet, journalist)
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away
Kim Wilde (1960-, Singer, entertainer)
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Yet each man kills the thing he loves. From all let this be heard: some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss. the brave man with the sword.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
David Wilkerson
Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983, American dramatist)
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963, American poet, novelist)
I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
Marianne Williamson (1952-, American author, lecturer on spirituality)
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
Marianne Williamson (1952-, American author, lecturer on spirituality)
My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry
Bruce Willis (1955-, German-born American actor)
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Sandy Wilson
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th))
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th))
What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-, American TV personality, producer, actress, author)
For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
Woodrow Wyatt (1918-, British journalist)
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by them.
William Wycherley (1640-1716, British dramatist)
Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young (1801-1877, American Mormon leader)
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young (American author)
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman (1906-1998, American actor, comedian)
When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understand in order to heal.
Gary Zukav
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