Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting
two bodies.
~ Aristotle
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when
there is no strategy, but it is very rare because
most people are strategists.
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Love is giving an authority to a person to destroy you completely, knowing that the person won't!!!!
"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken
"LOVE is the long lasting impact of first impression"
love defined by various personalities How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? 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.†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. I hold it true, whate'er befall; The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous -- a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change -- and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it -- at which point they can become human too. I love thee, I love but thee The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Three passions have governed my life: Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, This has been my life; I found it worth living. adapted A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. Love is patient, love is kind. The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. 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. CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE: Tell me who admires and loves you, For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell -- he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. You call it madness, but I call it love. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect... For everything there is a season, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Life is a quest and love a quarrel ... I love humanity but I hate people. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. (Oct. 1986) Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Whoso loves, believes the impossible. All love that has not friendship for its base, That Love is all there is, Love—is anterior to Life— Who has not found the heaven below Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being. He is not a lover who does not love forever. Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. We need not think alike to love alike. Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. The Life of Reason, 1905-1906 To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia -- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. Prejudices, 1919 Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. ...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. b. 1917 Chinese writer and physician The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. Spiritual Dimensions of Psychology Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. There is no remedy for love but to love more. If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. If I know what love is, it is because of you. You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time. Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. We can only learn to love by loving. On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. Another Country, 1962 Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect. Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. JEAN BAPTISTE HENRY LACORDAIRE: We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden. All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life. Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. The Quaker Reader, 1962 When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. The Snow Queen Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. W.H. Murray Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently. Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings. In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious. In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. [W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. Adam, in Adam's Diary Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Blackwater Woods Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. Is it so small a thing If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred. Where there is love there is life. Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire. (2007) Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right." (1999) But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter The best love affairs are those we never had. Do you love me because I'm beautiful, Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. The Picture of Dorian Gray The first duty of love is to listen. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. Birches I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud. Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great. Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... I love you Love (first stanza) RUMI: Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. RUMI: Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. RUMI: Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. RUMI: Come out of the circle of time You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. Perhaps; but is it not Tennyson who has said: "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all"? in The Way of All Flesh Resistance to oppression is often based on a love that leads us to value ourselves, and leads us to hope for more The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?" Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. This is my beloved and this is my friend. Where there is love, there is pain. Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Still Life With Woodpecker The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. Other Voices, Other Rooms, 1948 Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to made like bread; remade all the time, made new. A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how." Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much. from the journal of his Himalayan expedition Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. Love all, trust a few. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, "Romeo and Juliet" The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself. The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. here is my contribution:-
Albert Einstein:
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars grow old...
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
I Corinthians 13:4-8
And I will tell you who you are.
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Is all we know of Love.
Posterior—to Death—
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth—
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to min,
His furniture is love.
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."
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done...
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
It is the Morning and the Evening Star.
It shines upon the cradle of the babe,
and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.
It is the mother of Art,
inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home,
kindler of every fire on every hearth.
It was the first to dream of immortality.
It fills the world with melody,
for Music is the voice of Love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter,
that changes worthless things to joy,
and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.
It is the perfume of the wondrous flower -- the heart
and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon,
we are less than beasts;
but with it, earth is heaven
and we are gods.
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.
And into the circle of love.
than the established cultural system is willing to grant ... such love is far more energizing than guilt, duty, or self-sacrifice. Love for others leads us to accept accountability (in contrast to feeling guilt) and motivates our search for ways to end our complicity with structures of oppression. Solidarity does not require self-sacrifice, but an enlargement of the self to include community with others. [The Feminist Ethic of Risk]
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
Love is staying awake all night with an ill child or healthy adult
"Love is staying up all night with an ill child or an healty adult"
good ones
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