Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
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.
Love is not about getting - but giving.
A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
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.
There is no better way to enjoy God's abundance than to share a meal together with people you love.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.
Where there is love, there is God also.
The heart wants what it wants.
Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
Life is a quest and love a quarrel
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.
If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.
I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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