17. Love definition by famous persons

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. There's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them and then you never know where the hell you are. - The Catcher in the Rye

Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end, always found with no regrets, forever valued and kept treasured.

Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love keeps on expecting the best! because love keeps on trusting God even when the right choices you make don't turn out the way you want them too! Submitted by Victoria

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.

Oh Dear God! Why wouldn't you allow those two consuming fires to be only one? Why do you allow only fires aliens of each other to unite? Why God?
I look even know deep in the eyes of my soul mate, in the eyes that were so stranger to me at the beginning.
I feel it is above me, above my being, that my life has no meaning, but I also know that being together would kill us, because we would burn each other, as we both are much above the life of the other! We are like the poles of a magnet which attract themselves because they are opposite, but if they were united the magnetism would disappear.
This is why we will always attract ourselves seeking us in the other until death will make us forget each other in the instant of an eternal moment. Let's not forget that that moment too, no matter how eternal it is, is just a moment and nothing else. What about then?
Then will we seek each other restlessly again, in the infinity where we where born to die again, still wrapped in this cloak of vanity, of the impossibility of ever becoming close?

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too.
Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?

Everyone wants to hear I Love You but what they want more is for it to be true when you say it

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

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

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time

We need not think alike to love alike.

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness

There is but one genuine love-potion - consideration.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

drink to me only with thine eyes

I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you.

I think I would rather possess eyes that know no sight, ears that know no sound, hands that know no touch than a heart that knows no love.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

True love is knowing a person's faults, and loving them even more for them.

Two hearts, two minds, in time did find one love, one aim two paths the same. Hold fast. . . and love will last.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

True love is the parent of humility.

"love is a thing what we can not see but can realize"

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

There is no age limit for romance.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.

you know it is love when you look into his eyes and forget your own name!!

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles

Real love stories never have endings.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Respect is love in plain clothes.

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

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection � that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.