Love

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.
Lao-Tzu

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.
Marguerite Duras

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
John Donne

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
Edward M. Forster

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Anonymous

Simply put, Love is like a hand-grenade. If you don't throw it away from you as fast as you pull the pin, there is a 99.9% certainty that you are going to get hurt.
Matt V

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility.
W. H. Auden

A heart that loves is always young.
Greek Proverbs

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao-Tzu

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Sir James M. Barrie

No matter how hard it is, true love is also the result of an accident in the dream of our life, and that accident is an event that happens in our soul.
This event can be in another transcendental reality a volcano, a butterfly, a mountain or any other possible image we cannot even imagine.
Sorin Cerin

When you go somewhere your heart goes with you, But when you leave your friends their heart goes with yours.
Emma Oliver

bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
Thomas Merton

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.
Michio Kushi

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
Jewish Proverb

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.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]
Bible

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives
Father Andrew

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
William Shakespeare

Let's commit the perfect crime, I'll steal your heart and you'll steal mine.
The Internet

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
St. John of the Cross

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

"Love is not something you did it is something you do"
Chelsey E

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Benjamin Franklin

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.
Kahlil Gibran

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger

All the positions, fortunes, celebrities disappear as a snow flake that melts on the black asphalt of death. So does beauty too.
And what else remains if not the piece of love that once existed in this great il or in this dream called life?

Sorin Cerin

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

Love alone could waken love.
Pearl S. Buck

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
Jewish Proverb

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
Leo Buscaglia

The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.
Shusha Guppy

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
John Maxwell

Teach only love for that is what you are.
A Course In Miracles

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]
Bible

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women. -
Marion Smith

Each soul which believes it is its own eternal evil will eternally seek its good, but the great paradox is that in order to find each other one should look for the Good and the other for the Evil because they cannot both have the same sense because they are the opposite of each other.
The soul mates cannot have the same sign, but, in order to be pairs, they will have to attract, and of they both were Good, they would reject.
Thus, every soul mate is the opposite of the other one.

Sorin Cerin

If you love someone, put their name in a circle; because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.
Anonymous

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.
Pearl S. Buck

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.
Baroness Orczy

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mahatma Ghandi

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
Bible

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.
Rainer Maria Rilke