23. Love definition by famous persons

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.

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.

Wars will be increasingly more hypocrite, they will pass from the classical battle field to informatics systems counting new eases to be built or that are already built in secret, where there will be rockets with increasingly greater destruction potential.
All this are a part of the future and of the present of mankind, precisely because no nation wants to be trampled by those who rule mankind leading it to an increasing misery.
In a world where many do not even know what to do with so much luxury and fortune, people are starving or dying on the streets, some even on the steps of the churches that promise them a better life in heavens, omitting to say that the earthly one may be improved if precisely the churches did not support the world order that is so unfair and makes so many victims nowadays.

Your Absence is everywhere... I cannot escape your memory...

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

� a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

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

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

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

Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love ... Kindness is good will. Kindness says, 'I want you to be happy.' Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.

Love is to wish as wish is to dream as if you really believe it could happen.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.

True love stories never have endings.

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives

When love is found, it is hard to forget where it is.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 1:20); while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love; therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God! What marvelous grace and glory.

For better or worse, love never dies.

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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.

Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love ... Kindness is good will. Kindness says, 'I want you to be happy.' Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

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.

This is when Money will be dethroned! Only when there will not be many people left, when most of them will save themselves through suicide ad those who remained did it for the spiritual, sacerdotal society of the Sacred Self, for the society in which their life will consist of finding the Self Balance!
This is the future of mankind and if this is so, is it not suicide the way to the absolute, the absolute within us?
The true religion of the human being must be the one that excludes the fear of death!
Only such a religion can still save the Man.
Nothing else will do it, because the only salvation of the Man is Suicide.
In what do you see beauty? Is it in the nature of this world or in the divine nature of this world?
It is in the divine nature of this world because the nature of this world can be awful through its natural or spiritual calamities, earthquakes or floods, wars or other types of cataclysms.

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name - Romeo & Juliet

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

If you can't go to sleep at night, you must be in love, because your dreams are better than your reality.

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

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians -