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LOVE
Love is ROMANCE ...and a whole lot more.
Love
is CARING, SHARING, GIVING, FORGIVING...
Love is SERVICE:
SERVICE - Inspired by Johnny, The Bagger
-by
Simple Truths
Love is QUALITY TIME:
To a Child, LOVE is Spelled T-I-M-E
-by Simple Truths
There is only one happiness in life, to
love and
be loved.
-George Sand, letter [1862]
We can only
learn to
love by
loving.
-Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February
2004
To fear
love
is to fear life, and those who fear life are
already three parts dead.
-Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals
(1929) ch. 19
(The
opposite of
LOVE
is HATE: The thing about hatred is that it
does a great deal more damage to the vessel in
which it is stored, than the object on which
it is poured.)
-(Author unknown.)
Love
is everything it's cracked up to be…It really
is worth fighting for, being brave for,
risking everything for.
-Erica
Jong, O Magazine,
February 2004
"To
love what you do and feel that it
matters -- how could anything be more fun?"
-KatharineGraham
Love
is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
-Jean Anouilh
(1910 - 1987)
Age does not
protect you from
love.
But
love, to some extent, protects you from
age.
-Jeanne
Moreau
'Tis the most tender part of
love, each other
to forgive.
-
John Sheffield
To
love is to receive a glimpse
of heaven.
-
Karen Sunde
Honesty is the only way with
anyone, when you'll be so close as to be
living inside each other's skins.
Lois McMaster Bujold,
A Civil Campaign,
1999
When you give each other
everything, it becomes an even trade. Each
wins all.
Lois McMaster Bujold,
A Civil Campaign,
1999
The first duty of
love is to
listen.
Paul Tillich
(1886 - 1965),
O Magazine, February
2004
Love is an act of endless
forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a
habit.
Peter Ustinov
(1921 - 2004)
Love is not blind - it sees
more, not less. But because it sees more, it
is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius
Gordon
For one human being to
love
another; that is perhaps the most difficult of
all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and
proof, the work for which all other work is
but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
(1875 - 1926)
He who is in
love is wise and
is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he
looks at the object beloved, drawing from it
with his eyes and his mind those virtues which
it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882),
Address on The Method
of Nature, 1841
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963)
One word frees us of all the
weight and pain of life: That word is
love.
Sophocles
(496 BC - 406 BC)
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong
to none.
William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616),
"All's Well That Ends
Well", Act 1 Scene 1
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