If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. , 1 Corinthians 13 NIVLove and stoplights can be cruel. , Sesame Street, U.S. children's television showEveryone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane AckermanLove begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- AnonymousThe fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- AnonymousWe always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- AnonymousWe come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- AnonymousWind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- AnonymousAccept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus AureliusIf it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda BarryAll you need is love. -- The Beatles, song titleAnd in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last songARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of BlessingtonNothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles SchultzYour life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. -- Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent DefeatBetter to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David ChamblessLove means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. ChestertonThe way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. ChestertonLove is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan CrawfordLove is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome CummingsLove is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord DewarGravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert EinsteinGravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert EinsteinLove makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French ProverbLove and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund FreudImmature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich FrommWhere there is love there is life. -- GandhiIt 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. -- Khalil GibranWe love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki GiovanniWe look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William GladstoneThere is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLove is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is HellLove is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is HellPeople need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John HarriganLove is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise HayThe story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen HayesLove is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. HirschfieldLove is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa HoffmanThe love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert HubbardLife is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor HugoLove, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale HurstonThe closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyricI would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. IngersollLove is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel JohnsonEverybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao TzuLove 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. -- D. H. LawrenceLove one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael LeunigAn act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold LoukesTo love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les MiserablesFor the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- LysterLove is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset MaughamLove is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. MenckenLove is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. MenckenLove is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. MenckenLove cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl MenningerAge does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne MoreauThe most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother TeresaWe can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother TeresaNeither 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. -- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartLove is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. -- George Jean NathanTrue, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part: On Reading and WritingTo be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- PetrarchLove is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor ReikWe cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes RepplierLove is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts RhinehartFor 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. -- Rainer Maria RilkeThis is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria RilkeThe 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. -- Tom RobbinsThe lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George SantayanaIn endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral. -- George Santayana, Reason in ReligionThe course of true love never did run smooth. -- William ShakespeareLove looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard ShawThe fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard ShawSoul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe ShelleyTrouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah ShoreOne word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- SophoclesLove is stronger than justice. -- StingTo love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother TeresaWe can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother TheresaThe first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul TillichIf love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily TomlinInfatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway. -- Judith ViorstLove is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith ViorstLove is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith ViorstBeware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John WesleyWho, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar WildeMiracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne WilliamsonLove is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us. -- Marianne Williamson, A Return to LoveYou can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny YoungmanHonor the ocean of love. -- George de BennevilleAbsence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La RouchefoucauldIt is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La RouchefoucauldThere is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La RouchefoucauldLove does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël