19. Love definition by famous persons

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.

Nature loves a burst of energy.

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well being of one's companion.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

when someone becomes to hard to love you have two choices you eaither stop loving them or you love them a whole lot more

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is you; you and me.

Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make an enemy of and have to eliminate everything that goes against them.
This leads to the exacerbation of dictatorial Evil, to the most monstrous images that can be reflected in the mirror of Knowledge by this world with Destiny.
Since this world has a Destiny, it means that everything occurred only once before our world was under the Print of our Creating Factor and everything we see already existed before we did, except for the fact that they occurred in the same Accidental Occurrence, while in our world with destiny they happen in successions of Intended Occurrences.
There is a big difference through, because they determine a frontier between Illusion and the Image of this Illusion, on one side and the Print that was reflected in the Mirror of Knowledge, on the other side.
This difference, that accepts the succession of events of the Intended Occurrences which determine destiny, since they are predestined by the Unique Accidental Occurrence which is our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one, it makes have a Free Will vision on the world, because we illusory believe all the Intended occurrences can be influenced by the past Occurrences, which is completely wrong, because all of them are Intended Occurrences.
If the Free Will does not exist, can we indirectly influence from another point of view a certain succession of events that occurs in a illusory man in our world?

Love creates an us without destroying a me.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

To love is natural. To understand the variations of love is wisdom.

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know!!

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love.

Love doesnt give up just because someting goes wrong or because your feelings are hurt.God is in charge, so those who love just keep on loving. Submitted by Victoria

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of the human past is written and that book cannot be changed, so is the future which will be a part of the history and his book neither can be changed.
The only free way given to man to act on his destiny is by love. The man can and has the capacity to love or hate.
By having love man also has Holiness and Faith and thus he becomes religious.
Everything that is Holy receives other new meanings throughout the historical evolution. The term ‘evolution’, as I have said it, is inadequate to a world which has a destiny, but it is the closes to what I want to express now.
The saints are those who receive supernatural powers from the man. They can do Good or they can intervene in the human destiny.

Then do we still need our soul mate? Oh, yes, I say, because this is the bed through which the river of our life flows from another transcendental reality, this is the infinite on which the horizon of our heart rests in other dreams or transcendental realities.

Never frown, even when you're sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

And then we went to the end of worlds’ time with our thoughts burdened by the glory of the lie of this false spirituality of mankind that rests on its own truth as if it would be eternal and not ephemeral, as if it would be a weight in the balance of Creation and not at its feet, as if it were truth and not lie!

Love is the river of life in the world.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it take two wholes.

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

There is no remedy for love but to love more

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!

I'll take a breath, take you by my side Under the sunlight, Welcome to this place I'll show you love; I'll show you everything With arms wide open.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

We always come back to our first love.

Absence from the person you love is only healthy in theory.

Each successive phrase of our life leads toward a shared future where our climaxes, stumbles, codas, and masterpieces unravel from our dreams like a song that was always half-written in our souls, until this day.

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.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Im sure it was the precociousness and an idealistic zest for life's experiences hiding behind a transparent mask of innocence that captured me!