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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ Eden Ahbez
Quotes regarding Love (listed alphabetically by author):
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt... ~ Augustine of Hippo
Let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ Augustine of Hippo
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. ~ Augustine of Hippo
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ~ Augustine of Hippo
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. ~ Augustine of Hippo
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~ Aristotle
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love. ~ Aristotle
Who sings of all of Love's eternity
Who shines so bright
In all the songs of Love's unending spells?
Holy lightning strikes all that's evil
Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
Hear the music of Love Eternal
Teaching us to reach for goodness sake. ~ Jon Anderson
Well, when you think you love somebody, you love them. That's what love is. Thoughts…
Commander William Adama (played by Edward James Olmos), Battlestar Galactica, The Farm
The Encyclopedia Galactica, in its chapter on Love states that it is far too complicated to define. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: "Avoid, if at all possible."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), film based on the novel by Douglas Adams
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
Endless torments dwell about thee:
Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison, Rosamond (c. 1707), Act III, scene 2.
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together.
Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act III, scene 1.
When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene 1.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Eden Ahbez, "Nature Boy" (1948).
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868), chapter 24: Gossip
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868), chapter 40: The Valley Of The Shadow
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.
Woody Allen, reported in James Robert Parish, The Hollywood Book of Love, (2003), p. 35.
Who sings of all of Love's eternity
Who shines so bright
In all the songs of Love's unending spells?
Holy lightning strikes all that's evil
Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
Hear the music of Love Eternal
Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
Jon Anderson, in "Loved by the Sun", from movie Legend (1985) - (YouTube Video).
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 5: The Peripatetics, "Aristotle," 9.
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
Aristotle, Free Translation from the French version of a letter named "The Letter of Aristotle to Alexander on the Policy toward the Cities". Basis for translation: Lettre d’Aristote à Alexandre sur la politique envers les cités, Arabic text edition and translated/edited by Józef Bielawski and Marian Plezia (Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, 1970), page 72.
All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us.
Kevin Arnold (played by Daniel Stern) narrating in The Wonder Years (1988).
Alas! is even love too weak
To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
Are even lovers powerless to reveal
To one another what indeed they feel?
I knew the mass of men conceal'd
Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
They would by other men be met
With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;
I knew they lived and moved
Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
Of men, and alien to themselves — and yet
The same heart beats in every human breast!
Matthew Arnold, "The Buried Life" (1852), st. 2.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach (1867), St. 4.
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light Full text online
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand, and other essays (1962), p. 372.
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
Augustine of Hippo, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 392.
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
Augustine of Hippo, In epistulam Ioannis ad Parthos, Tractatus VII, 8 (Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Homily 7)
Latin: "dilige et quod vis fac."; falsely often: "ama et fac quod vis."
Translation by Professor Joseph Fletcher: Love and then what you will, do.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Augustine of Hippo, as quoted in Quote, Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory, p. 197.
Quantum in te crescit amor, tantum crescit pulchritudo; quia ipsa charitas est animae pulchritudo.
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
Augustine of Hippo in Homilies on the First Epistle of John Ninth Homily, §9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute
Variant translations:
Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (1995), The Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Ninth Homily, §9, as translated by H. Browne and J. H. Meyers
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
As translated in The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy : Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers (2004) by Gregory Bergman, p. 50.
Nondum amabam, et amare amabam...quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare.
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
Augustine of Hippo in Confessions (c. 397), III, 1.
Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! et ecce intus eras et ego foris, et ibi te quaerebam.
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Augustine of Hippo in Confessions (c. 397), X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly
Variant translations:
So late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! So late I loved you!
The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett (2007), by Lee Oser, p. 29
Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Introduction to a Philosophy of Religion (1970) by Alice Von Hildebrand
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.
Augustine of Hippo in On the Mystical Body of Christ, p. 436. From The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition, 1938, 1962, Fr. Emile Mersch, S. J., (1890-1940), John R. Kelly, S.J., tr., London, Dennis Dobson LTD. [1]
* Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. Thou mayest say, "I love only God, God the Father." Wrong! If Thou lovest Him, thou dost not love Him alone; but if thou lovest the Father, thou lovest also the Son. Or thou mayest say, "I love the Father and I love the Son, but these alone; God the Father and God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ who ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of the Father, the Word by whom all things were made, the Word who was made flesh and dwelt amongst us; only these do I love." Wrong again! If thou lovest the Head, thou lovest also the members; if thou lovest not the members, neither dost thou love the Head.
Augustine of Hippo in On the Mystical Body of Christ, p. 438. From The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition, 1938, 1962, Fr. Emile Mersch, S. J., (1890-1940), John R. Kelly, S.J., tr., London, Dennis Dobson LTD. [2]
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The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy. ~ Richard Bach
If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure. ~ Bahá'u'lláh
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving — in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation — never ceases to love. ~ Paul Bourget
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. ~ Phillips Brooks
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Whoever lives true life, will love true love. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Hatred has never stopped hatred. Only love stops hate. This is the eternal law. ~ Gautama Buddha
Let your love flow outward through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.
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Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;
Your life will bring heaven to earth. ~ Gautama Buddha
To love is to risk not being loved in return. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and grief never normally seen. ~ Kate Bush
I love my Beloved... All and everywhere ~ Kate Bush
All the love, all the love,
All the love we should have given.
All the love, all the love,
All the love you could have given.
All the love... ~ Kate Bush
There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it. ~ Kate Bush
What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music. ~ Kate Bush
We used to say
"Ah Hell, we're young"
But now we see that life is sad
And so is love. ~ Kate Bush
Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell’s despair. ~ William Blake
It is love that alone gives life, and the truest life is that which we live not in ourselves but vicariously in others, and with which we have no concern. ~ Samuel Butler
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~ Samuel Butler
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.~ Jorge Luis Borges
At the center of religion is love. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love. ~ Ray Bradbury
You are at the begining of your life, perhaps you will have many loves, but if you are fortunate, you will have only one love. ~ Jolee Bindo
If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection. ~ Gunar Björnstrand
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire. ~ Lord Byron
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. ~ Robert Burton
The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.
Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory (1989), p. 184
If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure.
Bahá'u'lláh, Lawh-i-Maqsúd (Tablet of Maqsúd)
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 250
Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sun what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.
Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Party and Entertainment.
Could I love less, I should be happier now.
Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Garden and Bower by the Sea
I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.
Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Party and Entertainment
Love spends his all, and still hath store.
Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Party and Entertainment
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Alcove and Garden
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.