Love Wishes and Status Messages - Page 105

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being drawn toward. Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one''s friends and enemies.

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

The opposite of love is not hate, it''s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it''s indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it''s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it''s indifference.

I love humanity but I hate people.

That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Every time we love, every time we give, it''s Christmas.

This has been my life; I found it worth living. adapted

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous -- a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn''t be here. You''re going to Mississippi to create social change -- and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it -- at which point they can become human too.

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Tell me who admires and loves you,
And I will tell you who you are.

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time for war, and a time for peace.

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it''s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell -- he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.