Love Wishes and Status Messages - Page 102

Where there is love, there is pain.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.

Do you love me because I''m beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Earth''s the right place for love. I don''t know where it''s likely to go better.

Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn''t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover''s eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child''s Sunday, lost voices, one''s favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

The first duty of love is to listen.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

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.

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.

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you
Love

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?

Love is the only bow on life''s dark cloud.
It is the Morning and the Evening Star.
It shines upon the cradle of the babe,
and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.
It is the mother of Art,
inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home,
kindler of every fire on every hearth.
It was the first to dream of immortality.
It fills the world with melody,
for Music is the voice of Love.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that''s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

This is my beloved and this is my friend.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.