If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the GREatest of these is love. , 1 Corinthians 13 NIV
love and stoplights can be cruel. , Sesame Street, U.S. children's television show
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one aGREes on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman
love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
-- Anonymous
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the GREat.
-- Anonymous
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
-- Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless
love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton
love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
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.
love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson
Everybody can be GREat... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college deGREe to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb aGREe to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, agGREssion and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu
love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence
love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster
love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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
love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken
love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken
love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa
We can do no GREat things; only small things with GREat love.
-- Mother Teresa
Neither a lofty deGREe of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
-- George Jean Nathan
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part: On Reading and Writing
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch
love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier
love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart
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
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
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.
-- Tom Robbins
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.
-- Judith Viorst
love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson
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.
