Love Wishes and Status Messages - Page 103

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Blackwater Woods

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Although the act of nurturing another''s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one''s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy''d the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done...

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don''t stand a chance against it.

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.

In real love you want the other person''s good. In romantic love you want the other person.

We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

Love is more than just a feeling: it''s a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, I understand than to hear, You''re right.