14. Love definition by famous persons

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need; by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use. In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose, With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath. Smiles, tears, of all my life! And, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Even though I have not loved from the beginning this wonderful soul, even though I have long disappointed and tortured it with my apparent instability, I have come to understand that when you do not seek you will find and when you do not love from the beginning you will live the greatest love, that will become the love of your life.

Simply put, Love is like a hand-grenade. If you don't throw it away from you as fast as you pull the pin, there is a 99.9% certainty that you are going to get hurt.

We all search for love beacuse it is the closest thing to magic. And when i found you i thought that nothing could compare. That is why whatever may happen you must have faith in that one person, and never let go of your true feelings.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew the face or name.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

When you go somewhere your heart goes with you, But when you leave your friends their heart goes with yours.

No matter how hard it is, true love is also the result of an accident in the dream of our life, and that accident is an event that happens in our soul.
This event can be in another transcendental reality a volcano, a butterfly, a mountain or any other possible image we cannot even imagine.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

A heart that loves is always young.

bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

"Love is not something you did it is something you do"

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Let's commit the perfect crime, I'll steal your heart and you'll steal mine.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives

All the positions, fortunes, celebrities disappear as a snow flake that melts on the black asphalt of death. So does beauty too.
And what else remains if not the piece of love that once existed in this great il or in this dream called life?

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women. -

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.