13. Love definition by famous persons

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

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

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

I love you. I call you. I always seek you in my heart. Now that I found you, what else can I say, maybe the most painful adieu in my entire life, my beautiful, adored, consuming soul mate.
I would like to hug you, but I know I cannot touch what is above me, above my life, above this piece of breath, and I am so alien to my self.
I know you are the one that can bring me out from the alienation I am in, that you are my only truth for which I exist in this world. I also know that without you, the entire world would fall apart, but it as true that beside you, the entire world would be consumed and what remains then?
I also know that the ineffable destiny will always keep the doors opened as if there would be any meaning as long as no one can go out through them.
This is a vanity too. It is also a vanity the fact that all the opposites attract and all the things that go in the same sense reject.
Thus Good will always be attracted by Evil, and Evil by good and the good of Good will be precisely the Evil while the good of Evil what we understand through Good.
The soul mates are as the pair of Good and Evil.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

My beloved is only water, which is always flowing, and doesn't deceive, which is always flowing, and doesn't change, which is always flowing, and doesn't end.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

Come, let us make love deathless.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people�s hands, people used to be shocked because they�d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through death, expecting you�

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

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

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.

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.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Why was I so blind that I couldn't see our love was changing underneath our very noses.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions? - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

God made many puzzle pieces, but only those two 'cut out' for each other, can fit together to create a perfect and beautiful picture.

If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''

God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' Christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us.

Out of the three gifts of faith, hope and love, the greatest of all is love. Corinthians 13:13

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis.