Love is a force more formidable than any other.
It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more
joy than any material possession could. ~ Barbara De Angelis
Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely,
willingly, and without expectation.... We don't love to be loved; we love to love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. ~ Galations 5:22
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much
a heart can hold ~ Zelda Fitzgerald
He who covers over an offense promotes love,
but whoever
repeats the matter separates close friends. ~ Proverbs 17:9
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
You will find as you look back upon your life that
the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry
Drummond
He who pursues righteousness and love
finds
life, prosperity and honor. ~ Proverbs 21:21
I have learned that to have a good friend is the
purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. ~ Frances Farmer (and what better
Friend than Jesus, Who gave His life for us, offered to be our Comforter, and did it all, even when He knew we would
have no way to repay Him?)
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because
we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and
wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. ~ Anais Nin
A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the
girl he
marries ~ anonymous quote
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I
am loved ~ George Eliot
Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the
palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care. ~ Carl S. Avery
Love consists in desiring to
give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
