SWEET LOVE

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Even though I have not loved from the beginning this wonderful soul, even though I have long disappointed and tortured it with my apparent instability, I have come to understand that when you do not seek you will find and when you do not love from the beginning you will live the greatest love, that will become the love of your life.
Sorin Cerin

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.

God made many puzzle pieces, but only those two 'cut out' for each other, can fit together to create a perfect and beautiful picture.
Jessica Cochran

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.
J. Isham

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

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
Adrienne Rich

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

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

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

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.
Polish Proverb

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Frank Tebbets

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
John Milton

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

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.
John Keats

People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Leonardo Da Vinci

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charlie Brown

A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.
Helen Thomson

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

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 heart that loves is always young.
Greek Proverbs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
Fr. Jerome Cummings

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Wilfred Peterson

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Dorothy Franken

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
William Shakespeare

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