30. Love definition by famous persons

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

I am a big believer in the ''mirror test.'' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

I understood how great the print of this Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one is, that he is truly love and towards who we have to act with the same love he conceived us, because everything he did was to make us feel his love, but this was not possible without a world in which the love to be reflected in one way or another, and the worlds of the Mirrors are the so-called worlds of Images, of Destiny, of so-called Knowledge which is in fact an image of Destiny.
Nevertheless, cannot this image of Destiny be changed from this vision full of tragedies that the human society has at least for now?

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Love sees no color

Man knows the Illusion of his Life and not the Absolute Truth, the man creates the birth of the universes he has once known, but of the Illusory universes and not of those who form or are a part of the Print of our God who is the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

I long for the day my Angel rests her head so delicately on her pillow. To watch my Angel sleep is to watch heaven in all its splendor!

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Love is the wild card of existence.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile...

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Love laughs at locksmiths.

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. -

It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave the world the gift of His dear Son while we were at enmity with Him. Paul says: 'But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' (Rom. 5:8). Therefore, in Him we are freely given all things: redemption, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, peace, hope, wisdom and knowledge.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Love opens the door that hate created

love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

My nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for loves sake. I cannot trade in love.

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

So much of what we know of love we learn at home.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

We have no time to hate in a hateful world.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?....What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my people and my country?

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever - On his surrender to Gen. Howard.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning -- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy Psalms

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

He is more myself than I am. Whatever our two souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

i love whats not mine, and take whats yous, is that right in a world thats wrong?

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Overcome the devils with a thing named love.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline, too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

The true God is the unknown God to the natural man and also the unknowable God without His revelation in Christ. God is not only invisible to man's sight , but also to man's senses. In Christ is found a God who is near, who hears, who cares, who loves, and who saves. 'For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ' (2 Cor. 4:6); 'All things are delievered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him' (Matt. 11:27).

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Love is the fulfilling of the Law.

My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.

On a day you least expect a dozen roses will you get. But a dozen roses they will not be; for there will only be eleven. For you are the twelth rose sent from heaven.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Indeed, nothing is more critically connected to happiness both our own and that of our children than how well we love and support one another within the family.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

What kind of love is more pure and more majestic, like the love for your native country. What kind of love?Theres nothing more, nothing.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. - The Last of Cheri

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind are always attained by giving them to someone else.

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.