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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition
~~Alexander Smith~~
Love in its essence is spiritual fire
~~Emanuel Swedenborg~~
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and
fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves
~~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit Priest~~
Life is a flower of which love is the honey
~~Victor Hugo~~
Today I begin to understand what love is. . . . When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves.
We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I know love to be: incompleteness in absence.
~~Alexandre Hazen Dornback~~
"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook;
how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all."
~~Emmet Fox~~
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
~~Bible, I Corinthians 13:4-8~~
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
~~John Lennon~~
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
~~Sophocles~~
The first duty of love - is to listen
~~Paul Tillich~~
I spread out the days before me - the days we have spent together -
some bright as frost stars, some glowing with an opalescent magic,
some cool as water-tumbled pebbles, some flashing with fire.
What would they have been without you? Dates crossed off on a calendar.
~~Marion C. Garretty~~
Gladly I'll live in a poor mountain hut,
Spin, sew and till the soil in any weather,
And wash in the cold mountain stream, if but
We dwell together.
~~Japanese Lyric~~
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts,
They shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze.
And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts,
Their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids.
~~I-Ching~~
