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There is, in the human Breast, a social Affection, which extends to our whole Species. ~ John Adams

Those who love their neighbor as themselves possess nothing more than their neighbor. ~ Basil of Caesarea

Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment. It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.

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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. ~ Felix Adler

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ Eden Ahbez

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. ~ Louisa May Alcott

Love is the principal cause of pleasure. ~ Thomas Aquinas

What love will make you do

All the things that we accept

Be the things that we regret ~ Ashanti

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt... ~ Augustine of Hippo

Let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ Augustine of Hippo

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ~ Augustine of Hippo

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. ~ Augustine of Hippo

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (1968), "Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 26

Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

Edward Abbey, Down the River (1982)

Well, when you think you love somebody, you love them. That's what love is. Thoughts…

Commander William Adama (played by Edward James Olmos), Battlestar Galactica, The Farm

There is, in the human Breast, a social Affection, which extends to our whole Species.

John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams (19 October 1775).

The Encyclopedia Galactica, in its chapter on Love states that it is far too complicated to define. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: "Avoid, if at all possible."

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), film based on the novel by Douglas Adams

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,

Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!

Endless torments dwell about thee:

Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Joseph Addison, Rosamond (c. 1707), Act III, scene 2

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;

The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,

Sink in the soft captivity together.

Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act III, scene 1

When love once pleads admission to our hearts,

(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene 1

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.

Felix Adler, Life and Destiny (1913), Section 5: Love and Marriage

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Eden Ahbez, "Nature Boy" (1948)

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868), chapter 24: Gossip

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868), chapter 40: The Valley Of The Shadow

“There is much to be known,” said Adaon, “and above all much to be loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.”

Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1973), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 3

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1973), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 8

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the question, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.

Woody Allen, reported in James Robert Parish, The Hollywood Book of Love, (2003), p. 35

Who sings of all of Love's eternity

Who shines so bright

In all the songs of Love's unending spells?

Holy lightning strikes all that's evil

Teaching us to love for goodness sake.

Hear the music of Love Eternal

Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.

Jon Anderson, in "Loved by the Sun", from movie Legend (1985) (YouTube video)

We, unaccustomed to courage

exiles from delight

live coiled in shells of loneliness

until love leaves its high holy temple

and comes into our sight

to liberate us into life.

Maya Angelou, A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Maya Angelou, A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)

Love costs all we are

and will ever be.

Yet it is only love

which sets us free.

A Brave and Startling Truth.

Maya Angelou, A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)

Σχέτλι᾽ Ἔρως, μέγα πῆμα, μέγα στύγος ἀνθρώποισιν,

ἐκ σέθεν οὐλόμεναί τ᾽ ἔριδες στοναχαί τε γόοι τε,

ἄλγεά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν ἀπείρονα τετρήχασιν.

Unconscionable Love, bane and tormentor of mankind, parent of strife, fountain of tears, source of a thousand ills.

Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book IV, lines 445–447 (tr. E. V. Rieu)

The third principle [way doing good to another may give pleasure] is the motive: for instance when a man is moved by one whom he loves, to do good to someone: for whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.

[Thomas Aquinas], Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I-II, q. 32, art. 6

To love is to will the good of the other.

[Thomas Aquinas], Summa Theologica (1265–1274), II-II, q. 26, art. 6

Álomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenség.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

János Arany, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Attributed to Aristotle in Richard Alan Krieger, Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal (2002), p. 47, misquoting earlier reports of the quote which used "friendship" rather than "love".

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

Aristotle, Free Translation from the French version of a letter named "The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities". Basis for translation: Lettre d’Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités, Arabic text edition and translated/edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia (Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, 1970), page 72

All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us.

Kevin Arnold (played by Daniel Stern) narrating in The Wonder Years (1988)

Alas! is even love too weak

To unlock the heart, and let it speak?

Are even lovers powerless to reveal

To one another what indeed they feel?

I knew the mass of men conceal'd

Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd

They would by other men be met

With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;

I knew they lived and moved

Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest

Of men, and alien to themselves — and yet

The same heart beats in every human breast!

Matthew Arnold, "The Buried Life" (1852), st. 2

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach (1867), St. 4

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light Full text online

What love will make you do

All the things that we accept

Be the things that we regret

Ashanti, Foolish (January 29, 2002) from the April 2, 2002 album Ashanti

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (1972) p. 107

Variant: The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Hunger allows no choice

To the citizen or the police;

We must love one another or die.

W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939 (1939) Lines 78-88; for a 1955 anthology text the poet changed this line to "We must love one another and die" to avoid what he regarded as a falsehood in the original.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand, and other essays‎ (1962), p. 372

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

Augustine of Hippo, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 392

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

Augustine of Hippo, In epistulam Ioannis ad Parthos, Tractatus VII, 8 (Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Homily 7)

Latin: "dilige et quod vis fac."; falsely often: "ama et fac quod vis."

Translation by Professor Joseph Fletcher: Love and then what you will, do.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine of Hippo, as quoted in Quote, Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory, p. 197

Quantum in te crescit amor, tantum crescit pulchritudo; quia ipsa charitas est animae pulchritudo.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Augustine of Hippo in Homilies on the First Epistle of John Ninth Homily, §9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute

Variant translations:

Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.

Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (1995), The Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Ninth Homily, §9, as translated by H. Browne and J. H. Meyers

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

As translated in The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy : Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers (2004) by Gregory Bergman, p. 50.

Nondum amabam, et amare amabam...quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Augustine of Hippo in Confessions (c. 397), III, 1

Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! et ecce intus eras et ego foris, et ibi te quaerebam.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Augustine of Hippo in Confessions (c. 397), X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly

Variant translations:

So late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! So late I loved you!

The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett‎ (2007), by Lee Oser, p. 29

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Introduction to a Philosophy of Religion (1970) by Alice Von Hildebrand

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

Augustine of Hippo in On the Mystical Body of Christ, p. 436. From The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition, 1938, 1962, Fr. Emile Mersch, S. J., (1890-1940), John R. Kelly, S.J., tr., London, Dennis Dobson LTD.

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. Thou mayest say, "I love only God, God the Father." Wrong! If Thou lovest Him, thou dost not love Him alone; but if thou lovest the Father, thou lovest also the Son. Or thou mayest say, "I love the Father and I love the Son, but these alone; God the Father and God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ who ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of the Father, the Word by whom all things were made, the Word who was made flesh and dwelt amongst us; only these do I love." Wrong again! If thou lovest the Head, thou lovest also the members; if thou lovest not the members, neither dost thou love the Head.

Augustine of Hippo in On the Mystical Body of Christ, p. 438. From The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition, 1938, 1962, Fr. Emile Mersch, S. J., (1890-1940), John R. Kelly, S.J., tr., London, Dennis Dobson LTD.

We cannot help loving what is beautiful.

Augustine of Hippo, On Music (387–391), VI, 13

Only the beautiful is loved.

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (c. 397), IV, 13

Jim Luther Davis: Love's about sacrifice; only true measure of it... Yeah, that's love.

Harsh Times (2005), written by David Ayer

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If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure. ~ Bahá'u'lláh

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. ~ Phillips Brooks

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully. ~ Leo Buscaglia

Just as a mother with her own life

Protects her child, her only child, from harm,

So within yourself let grow

A boundless love for all creatures. ~ Gautama Buddha

Let us, cautious in diction

And mighty in contradiction,

Love powerfully. ~ Martin Buber

Hatred has never stopped hatred. Only love stops hate. This is the eternal law. ~ Gautama Buddha

Let your love flow outward through the universe,

To its height, its depth, its broad extent,

A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.

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Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;

Your life will bring heaven to earth. ~ Gautama Buddha

To love is to risk not being loved in return. ~ Leo Buscaglia

What am I singing?

A song of seeds

The food of love.

Eat the music. ~ Kate Bush

We used to say

"Ah Hell, we're young"

But now we see that life is sad

And so is love. ~ Kate Bush

Love seeketh not itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives its ease,

And builds a heaven in hell’s despair. ~ William Blake

It is love that alone gives life, and the truest life is that which we live not in ourselves but vicariously in others, and with which we have no concern. ~ Samuel Butler

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~ Samuel Butler

At the center of religion is love. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love. ~ Ray Bradbury

If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection. ~ Gunar Björnstrand

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. ~ Jean de La Bruyère

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;

A spark of that immortal fire

With angels shared, by Allah given

To lift from earth our low desire. ~ Lord Byron

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. ~ Robert Burton

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

Meher Baba, Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba (1986) by Bhau Kalchuri, 7:2457

The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.

Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory (1989), p. 184

Bahá'u'lláh, Lawh-i-Maqsúd (Tablet of Maqsúd)

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 250

Ask not of me, love, what is love?

Ask what is good of God above;

Ask of the great sun what is light;

Ask what is darkness of the night;

Ask sin of what may be forgiven;

Ask what is happiness of heaven;

Ask what is folly of the crowd;

Ask what is fashion of the shroud;

Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;

Ask of thyself what beauty is.

Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Party and Entertainment

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Garden and Bower by the Sea

I cannot love as I have loved,

And yet I know not why;

It is the one great woe of life

To feel all feeling die.

Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Party and Entertainment

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Party and Entertainment

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Alcove and Garden

Ὥστε ὁ ἀγαπῶν τὸν πλησίον ὡς ἑαυτὸν οὐδὲν περισσότερον κέκτηται τοῦ πλησίον·

Those who love their neighbor as themselves possess nothing more than their neighbor.

Basil of Caesarea, Homily to the Rich (c. 368), in Saint Basil on Social Justice, edited and translated by C. P. Schroeder (2009), p. 43

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Jean Baudrillard, Cool memories‎ (1990), p. 153

Bright are the stars that shine

Dark is the sky

I know this love of mine

Will never die

And I love her

The Beatles, And I Love Her (1964)from the 1964 album A Hard Day's Night

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir, As quoted in Successful Aging : A Conference Report (1974) by Eric Pfeiffer, p. 142

Love — caritas — is an extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field of justice and peace. It is a force that has its origin in God, Eternal Love and Absolute Truth. Each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8:32). To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity. Charity, in fact, “rejoices in the truth” (1 Cor 13:6).

Pope Benedict XVI, in Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate (29 June 2009)

Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space.

Pope Benedict XVI, in Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate (29 June 2009)

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

Pope Benedict XVI, in Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate (29 June 2009)

Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs. How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality into human relationships! This is worship of a false god; instead of bringing life, it brings death.

Pope Benedict XVI, Disadvantaged Youth (18 July 2007) at World Youth Day 2008 in Australia

Love has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature, love is enduring. The Holy Spirit offers our world love that dispels uncertainty; love that overcomes the fear of betrayal; love that carries eternity within; the true love that draws us into a unity that abides!

Pope Benedict XVI, Youth Day Vigil (19 July 2007) at World Youth Day 2008 in Australia

Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!

Pope Benedict XVI, Youth Day Vigil (19 July 2007) at World Youth Day 2008 in Australia

A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed. A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty - a new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption that deaden our souls and poison our relationships.

Pope Benedict XVI, Closing Mass (19 July 2007) at World Youth Day 2008 in Australia

Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.

Wendell Berry, What Are People For? (1990), chapter The Responsibility of the Poet

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

Wendell Berry, Another Turn of the Crank (1996), chapter Health is Membership

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Wendell Berry, Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary

Love seeketh not itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives its ease,

And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.

William Blake, The Clod and the Pebble, st. 1 in: Songs of Experience (1794)

Man, you got to have love just to set it straight

Take control of your mind and meditate

Let your soul gravitate to the love y'all

The Black Eyed Peas, Where Is the Love? (2003)

If you never know truth then you never know love.

The Black Eyed Peas, Where Is the Love? (2003)

The mightiest love was granted him

Love that does not expect to be loved.

Jorge Luis Borges, of Baruch Spinoza in "Baruch Spinoza", as translated in Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Marrano of Reason (1989) by Yirmiyahu Yovel

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Threatened", The Book of Sand [El Libro de arena] (1975)

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Paul Bourget, Cosmopolis (1892), Ch. 5 "Countess Steno"

There is no such thing as an age for love … because the man capable of loving — in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation — never ceases to love.

Paul Bourget, The Age for Love (Whether or not the interview with Pierre Fauchery by "Jules Labarthe" in this short story represents an actual one by Bourget is not known.) Full text online

I have been thinking about our conversation and about your book, and I am afraid that I expressed myself badly yesterday. When I said that one may love and be loved at any age I ought to have added that sometimes this love comes too late. It comes when one no longer has the right to prove to the loved one how much she is loved, except by love's sacrifice.

Pierre Fauchery, as quoted by the character "Jules Labarthe"

Paul Bourget, The Age for Love (Whether or not the interview with Pierre Fauchery by "Jules Labarthe" in this short story represents an actual one by Bourget is not known.) Full text online

We have common cause against the night... Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear the music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokecherry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain... We love what we know, we love what we are. Common cause, common cause, common cause of mouth, eye, ear, tongue, hand, nose, flesh, heart, and soul.

Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), p. 145

Ray Bradbury, as quoted in "Sci-fi legend "Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN : Living (2 August 2010), p. 1

In that film Love Story, there’s a line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you’re sorry every day for some little thing or other.

Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Interviewed by Sam Geller The Art of Fiction No. 203, The Paris Review; Spring, 2010

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

Giannina Braschi in Yo-Yo Boing!

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Giannina Braschi in "Empire of Dreams" (1988)

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children (1939), The Chaplain, in Scene 6, p. 76

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Phillips Brooks, as quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody, p. 190

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642), Part II, Section IX

If thou must love me, let it be for nought

Except for love's sake only. Do not say

"I love her for her smile — her look — her way

Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought

That falls in well with mine, and certes brought

A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" —

For these things in themselves, Beloved, may

Be changed, or change for thee, — and love, so wrought,

May be unwrought so. Neither love me for

Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, —

A creature might forget to weep, who fbore

Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!

But love me for love's sake, that evermore

Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese, No. XIV

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, No. XLIII

Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book I, line 1,096

I would not be a rose upon the wall

A queen might stop at, near the palace-door,

To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me,

It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh!

I'd rather far be trodden by his foot,

Than lie in a great queen's bosom.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book IV

But I love you, sir:

And when a woman says she loves a man,

The man must hear her, though he love her not.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book IX

The game of love is whatever you make it to be.

Michelle Branch, "The Game of Love" (September 2002), by Santana, Shaman

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,

And hope and fear (believe the aged friend),

Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,—

How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

Robert Browning, A Death in the Desert (1864)

Le temps, qui fortifie les amitiés, affaiblit l'amour.

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean de La Bruyère, Du Coeur, ["Of the Heart" also translated as "Of the Affections"], Aphorism 4

L'amour qui naît subitement est le plus long à guérir.

Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

Jean de La Bruyère, Du Coeur, ["Of the Heart" also translated as "Of the Affections"], Aphorism 13

Le commencement et le déclin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras où l'on est de se trouver seuls.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Jean de La Bruyère, Du Coeur, ["Of the Heart" also translated as "Of the Affections"], Aphorism 33

L'on veut faire tout le bonheur, ou si cela ne se peut ainsi, tout le malheur de ce qu'on aime.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de La Bruyère, Du Coeur, ["Of the Heart" also translated as "Of the Affections"], Aphorism 39

Regretter ce que l'on aime est un bien, en comparaison de vivre avec ce que l'on hait.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean de La Bruyère, Du Coeur, ["Of the Heart" also translated as "Of the Affections"], Aphorism 40

Loveliest of lovely things are they,

On earth, that soonest pass away.

The rose that lives its little hour

Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

William Cullen Bryant, A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson, st. 3 (1828)

Every morning

I shall concern myself anew about the boundary

Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No

And pressing forward honor reality.

We cannot avoid

Using power,

Cannot escape the compulsion

To afflict the world,

So let us, cautious in diction

And mighty in contradiction,

Love powerfully.

Martin Buber, in "Power and Love" (1926)

Hatred has never stopped hatred. Only love stops hate. This is the eternal law.

Gautama Buddha, Dhammapada, chapter 1, verse 3-5, The Still Point: Dhammapada - Living the Buddha’s Essential Teachings - A Contemporary Rendering and Stories by Geri Larkin (2003), Harper SanFrancisco

Just as a mother with her own life

Protects her child, her only child, from harm,

So within yourself let grow

A boundless love for all creatures.

Let your love flow outward through the universe,

To its height, its depth, its broad extent,

A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.

Then as you stand or walk,

Sit or lie down,

As long as you are awake,

Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;

Your life will bring heaven to earth.

Buddha Discourse on Goodwill, From the Metta Sutta, part of the Sutta Nipata, a collection of dialogues with the Buddha said to be among the oldest parts of the Pali Buddhist canon

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (1996)

Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.

Warren Buffett, as quoted in "Should You Leave It All to the Children?" by Richard I. Kirkland Jr, in Fortune (29 September 1986)

Love. What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE.

William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs (2000)

And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section 1. Memb. 1. Subsec. 7

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section 2. Memb. 1. Subsec. 2

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section 2. Terence—Andria, III. 23

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving, and Learning (1985)

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

Leo Buscaglia, in interview with Veronica M. Hay, in A Magazine of People and Possibilities (1998)

We needed you

To love us too.

We wait for your move.

Kate Bush, The Dreaming (1982), All The Love

Only tragedy allows the release

Of love and grief never normally seen.

I didn't want to let them see me weep,

I didn't want to let them see me weak,

But I know I have shown

That I stand at the gates alone.

Kate Bush, The Dreaming (1982), All The Love

I needed you

To love me too.

I wait for your move.

Kate Bush, The Dreaming (1982), All The Love

All the love, all the love,

All the love we should have given.

All the love, all the love,

All the love you could have given.

All the love...

Kate Bush, The Dreaming (1982), All The Love

Do you know what I really need?

I need love love love love love, yeah!

Kate Bush, Hounds of Love (1985), Hounds of Love

The light

Begin to bleed,

Begin to breathe,

Begin to speak.

D'you know what?

I love you better now.

Kate Bush, Hounds of Love (1985), side two of the album called The Ninth Wave, song The Morning Fog

We let it in

We give it out

And in the end

What's it all about?

It must be love.

Kate Bush, The Red Shoes (1993), And So Is Love

We used to say

"Ah Hell, we're young"

But now we see that life is sad

And so is love.

Kate Bush, The Red Shoes (1993), And So Is Love

What am I singing?

A song of seeds

The food of love.

Eat the music.

Kate Bush, The Red Shoes (1993), Eat the Music

Excuse me I'm sorry to bother you,

But don't I know you?

There's just something about you.

Haven't we met before?

We've been in love forever.

Kate Bush, 50 Words for Snow (2011), Snowed In at Wheeler Street

There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.

You might feel it and just not show it.

Kate Bush, 50 Words for Snow (2011), Among Angels

* I love my

Beloved, ooh,

All and everywhere,

Only the fools blew it.

You and me

Knew life itself is

Breathing...

Kate Bush, Never for Ever (1980), Breathing

It is love that alone gives life, and the truest life is that which we live not in ourselves but vicariously in others, and with which we have no concern. Our concern is so to order ourselves that we may be of the number of them that enter into life — although we know it not.

Samuel Butler, Ramblings In Cheapside (1890), First published in Universal Review (December 1890)

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy, Life and Love

A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them., Chapter 11.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903)

Love in your hearts as idly burns

As fire in antique Roman urns.

Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto I

Love is a boy by poets styl'd:

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto I, line 843

What mad lover ever dy'd,

To gain a soft and gentle bride?

Or for a lady tender-hearted,

In purling streams or hemp departed?

Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part III (1678), Canto I

Oh Love! young Love! bound in thy rosy band,

Let sage or cynic prattle as he will,

These hours, and only these, redeem Life's years of ill.

Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (1812), Stanza 81

The cold in clime are cold in blood,

Their love can scarce deserve the name.

Lord Byron, The Giaour (1813), line 1,099

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;

A spark of that immortal fire

With angels shared, by Allah given

To lift from earth our low desire.

Lord Byron, The Giaour (1813), line 1,131

Why did she love him? Curious fool!—be still—

Is human love the growth of human will?

Lord Byron, Lara, A Tale (1814), Canto II, Stanza 22

And to his eye

There was but one beloved face on earth,

And that was shining on him.

Lord Byron, The Dream (1816), Stanza 2

She knew she was by him beloved,—she knew

For quickly comes such knowledge, that his heart

Was darken'd with her shadow.

Lord Byron, The Dream (1816), Stanza 3

Who loves, raves—'tis youth's frenzy—but the cure

Is bitterer still.

Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 123

O! that the Desert were my dwelling place,

With one fair Spirit for my minister,

That I might all forget the human race,

And, hating no one, love but only her!

Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 177

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,

'Tis woman's whole existence: man may range

The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart,

Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange

Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart,

And few there are whom these cannot estrange;

Men have all these resources, we but one,

To love again, and be again undone.

Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 194

Alas! the love of women! it is known

To be a lovely and a fearful thing.

Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 199

In her first passion woman loves her lover;

In all the others, all she loves is love.

Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 3. La Rochefoucauld. Maxims. No. 497

All I have is my love of love and love is not loving.

David Bowie, Soul Love (song) (1972)

"You are at the beginning of your life, perhaps you will have many loves, but if you are fortunate, you will have only one love."

Jolee Bindo, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, version 1.03

"If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection."

Gunar Björnstrand, The Seventh Seal (1957)

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For want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. ~ Albert Camus

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more? ~ "Celine" (played by Julie Delpy) in Before Sunrise (1995)

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love, not pure love. If loves means to give oneself, to become one with everything and everyone, then that is real love. Real love is total oneness with the object loved and with the Possessor of love. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Life is nothing but the expansion of love. ~ Sri Chinmoy

There's just this human heart.

That's built with this human fault.

What was your question?

Love is the answer. ~ Annie Clark (St. Vincent)

The light came through the window,

Straight from the sun above,

And so inside my little room

There plunged the rays of Love. ~ Leonard Cohen

I am not the one who loves —

It's love that chooses me. ~ Leonard Cohen

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding. - Dinah Craik

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. - Dinah Craik

Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.… It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. ~ Paulo Coelho

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules. ~ Paulo Coelho

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.

And to save us. ~ Paulo Coelho

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger. ~ Paulo Coelho

Love simply is. … Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love. ~ Paulo Coelho

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. [...] That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ~ Paulo Coelho

Love ain't no walk in the park

All you can do is make the best of it now

[...]

Just know that you're not in this thing alone

There's always a place in me that you can call home. ~ Cheryl Cole

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,

Whatever stirs this mortal frame,

All are but ministers of Love,

And feed his sacred flame. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In many ways doth the full heart reveal

The presence of the love it would conceal. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love's for a lifetime not for a moment. - The Corrs

Please believe me when I say

This time I won't run away

I swear by all the heaven's stars above

Now that I've found you

I'm looking in the eyes of love.

- The Corrs

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star... ~ E. E. Cummings

Love is the every only god. ~ E. E. Cummings

the axis of the universe

—love ~ E. E. Cummings

Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over;

One thing unshaken stays:

Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover;

Whereby decays

Each thing save one thing: — mid this strife diurnal

Of hourly change begot,

Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal,

And changes not; —

Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers

Find altered by-and-bye,

When, with possession, time anon discovers

Trapped dreams must die, —

For he that visions God, of mankind gathers

One manlike trait alone,

And reverently imputes to Him a father's

Love for his son.

James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour (1916), "To Robert Gamble Cabell II: In Dedication of The Certain Hour"

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour (1916), "Auctorial Induction"

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest (1917), Horvendile, in Ch. 2 : Introduces the Ageless Woman

There is no gift more great than love.

James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion (1926), Morvyth, in Book Two : The Mathematics of Gonfal, Ch. X : Relative to Gonfal's Head

One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving

Amy Carmichael A Chance to Die.The life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, Elisabeth Elliot, Revell, 1987

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Julia Cameron, Blessings : Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life (1998)

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

Julia Cameron, Blessings : Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life (1998)

The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

Julia Cameron, Blessings : Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life (1998)

Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic — love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

Julia Cameron, Blessings : Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life (1998)

Amor é um fogo que arde sem se ver,

É ferida que dói, e não se sente;

É um contentamento descontente,

É dor que desatina sem doer.

É um não querer mais que bem querer;

É um andar solitário entre a gente;

É nunca contentar-se de contente;

É um cuidar que ganha em se perder.

É querer estar preso por vontade;

É servir a quem vence, o vencedor;

É ter com quem nos mata, lealdade.

Mas como causar pode seu favor

Nos corações humanos amizade,

Se tão contrário a si é o mesmo Amor?

Love is a ﬁre that burns, but is never seen;

a wound that hurts, but is never perceived;

a pleasure that starts a pain that’s unrelieved;

a pain that maddens without any pain; a serene

desire for nothing, but wishing her only the best;

a lonely passage through the crowd; the resentment

of never being content with one’s contentment;

a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed

desire to be bound, for love, in jail;

a capitulation to the one you’ve conquered yourself;

a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

So how can Love conform, without fail,

every captive human heart, if Love itself

is so contradictory in every possible way?

Luís de Camões, Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver, translated by William Baer

Nous nous trompons toujours deux fois sur ceux que nous aimons: d`abord à leur avantage, puis à leur désavantage.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus, quoted in Robertson, Connie (1998). ""Camus, Albert 1913–1960". The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations. Wordsworth Editions. pp. page 73. ISBN 185326489X.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Albert Camus, Preface, Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

* In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

Albert Camus, A Happy Death (1971)

That's love too. It ain't sex, and maybe that's too bad, but you know, Cindy, when a man and a woman care for each other, that doesn't always mean they have to sleep together or live together.

Orson Scott Card in Homebody (1998)

For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

Thomas Carlyle, Essays, Death of Goethe. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23

One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving

Amy Carmichael, A Chance to Die.The life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, Elisabeth Elliot, Revell, 1987.

Give me the love that leads the way,

The faith that nothing can dismay,

The hope no disappointments tire,

The passion that will burn like fire;

Let me not sink to be a clod:

Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

Amy Carmichael, from The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael, CLC, Fort Washington, USA 1999, ISBN 0-87508-790-6.

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park Ch. 17, The Brass Ring, IV (2002)

Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles.

Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Book I, Ch. 4

I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

Richard Cecil, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 394

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

"Celine" (played by Julie Delpy), in Before Sunrise (1995)

“Love the others and you will be loved!” is a saying that might sound as a terrible and unjust accusation against all the innocents that have been hated and perhaps even tortured and killed.

Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Writings by Fausto Cercignani, 2014, quote 58

There's no love lost between us.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Book IV, Chapter 13. Also used by Henry Fielding, Grub Street, Act I, scene 4; David Garrick, Correspondence (1759); Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV. Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of His Humour, Act II, scene 1. Alain-René Lesage, Gil Blas (1715-1735), Book IX, Chapter VII, as translated by Tobias Smollett

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man 1955, p. 264

Each one gave the other the only assistance one man can expect from another: that his friend support him and ask only that he remain himself. It is no great accomplishment to take people as they are, and we must always do so eventually, but to wish them to be as they are, that is a genuine love.

Émile Chartier, Alain On Happiness (1973), Poets

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News (16 July 1910)

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970), August 31

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

Sri Chinmoy, My Rose Petals (1971)

First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love, not pure love. If loves means to give oneself, to become one with everything and everyone, then that is real love. Real love is total oneness with the object loved and with the Possessor of love.

Sri Chinmoy, Rainbow-Flowers (1973)

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

Sri Chinmoy, Fifty Freedom-Boats To One Golden Shore (1974), Citation- ffb-132, Part 4

Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979), #1908, Part 20

Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him.

Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy (1997)

If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.

Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy (1997)

Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.

Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy (1997)

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy (1997)

Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998), #4386, Part 5

Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998),#7310, Part 8

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998), #14550, Part 15

World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.

Sri Chinmoy, Words of Wisdom (2010)

Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.

Sri Chinmoy, Words of Wisdom (2010)

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Ray Charles, Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978) by Ray Charles and David Ritz, (2003 edition), For the Love of Women, p. 239

"There have been women I have loved … A lot, as discreetly as possible."

Jacques Chirac, undated, quoted in "'Affair' story will continue to rumble" Christian Fraser, BBC News, 14 January 2014

So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.

Colley Cibber, Richard III (1700), Act II; altered from Shakespeare

What have I done? What horrid crime committed?

To me the worst of crimes—outliv'd my liking.

Colley Cibber, Richard III (1700), Act III, scene 2; altered from Shakespeare

There are no signs,

There are no stars aligned,

No amulets no charms,

To bring you back to my arms.

There's just this human heart.

That's built with this human fault.

What was your question?

Love is the answer.

Annie Clark (St. Vincent), in "All My Stars Aligned" on Marry Me (2007)

Years! Years, ye shall mix with me!

Ye shall grow a part

Of the laughing Sea;

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