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Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. ~ Felix Adler Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment. It can also be a virtue representing kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". Arranged alphabetically by author or source: A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z · Hoyt'sNewCyclopediaOfPracticalQuotations · Anonymous · Seealso · Externallinks A [edit] The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ eden ahbez Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. ~ Louisa May Alcott We're all hostages to what we love. The only way to truly be free is to love nothing. And how meaningless would that be? ~ Cindy Appel Love is the principal cause of pleasure. ~ Thomas Aquinas What love will make you do All the things that we accept Be the things that we regret. ~ Ashanti Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt... ~ Augustine of Hippo Let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ Augustine of Hippo Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ~ Augustine of Hippo Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. ~ Augustine of Hippo Love can create universes. Love and Wisdom are equal. ~ Agni Yoga Let us accept love as the motive force in the expansion of consciousness. The heart will not be aflame without love; it will not be invincible, nor will it be self-sacrificing. ~ Agni Yoga Someone who loves you won’t worry about you for days. Someone who loves you will do the impossible to talk to you. Someone who loves you won’t bear a moment of your absence; they’ll make up a thousand excuses to talk to you. So don’t trust someone who disappears and then comes back with a flimsy excuse. Abdel Nasser Abdel Fattah said that nothing is worth exhausting yourself for. Abdel Nasser Abdel Fattah I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe [citationneeded] You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. William W. Purkey [citationneeded] You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss [citationneeded] Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr [citationneeded] Love flowers best in openness and freedom. Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (1968), "Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 26 Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle, as quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss. Edward Abbey, Down the River (1982) “Love,” Asa said, “is like a pigeon shitting over a crowd.” “How so?” “Where it lands hasn’t got much to do with who deserves it.” Daniel Abraham, The Meaning of Love, in George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (eds.) Rogues (2014), p. 397 Well, when you think you love somebody, you love them. That's what love is. Thoughts… Commander William Adama (played by Edward James Olmos), Battlestar Galactica, The Farm There is, in the human Breast, a social Affection, which extends to our whole Species. John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams (19 October 1775). The Encyclopedia Galactica, in its chapter on Love states that it is far too complicated to define. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: "Avoid, if at all possible." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), film based on the novel by Douglas Adams Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! Joseph Addison, Rosamond (c. 1707), Act III, scene 2 When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together. Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act III, scene 1 When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The woman that deliberates is lost. Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene 1 Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships. Felix Adler, Life and Destiny (1913), Section 5: Love and Marriage Love can create universes. Love and Wisdom are equal. Agni Yoga, Leaves of Morya’s Garden I, 28. (1924) Regarding the various qualities of love, let us note the love that holds back and the love that impels forward. Essentially, the first type is earthly, while the second is heavenly. What a multitude of creations have been destroyed by the first, and what a similar number have been winged on by the second! The first is aware of all the limitations of space and consciousness, but the second has no need to measure things by earthly standards. Agni Yoga, Heart, 242, (1932) Let us accept love as the motive force in the expansion of consciousness. The heart will not be aflame without love; it will not be invincible, nor will it be self-sacrificing. So let us bring gratitude to every receptacle of love, for love lies on the border of the New World, where hatred and intolerance have been abolished. The path of love unfolds with the intensity of cosmic energy. Agni Yoga, Heart, 243, (1932) The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. eden ahbez, "Nature Boy" (1948) Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868), chapter 24: Gossip Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868), chapter 40: The Valley Of The Shadow The more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts. Lloyd Alexander, Adaon in The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1973), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 3 Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too. Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1973), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 8 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. Woody Allen, reported in James Robert Parish, The Hollywood Book of Love, (2003), p. 35 How accommodating love is; it forgives everything. Isabel Allende Inés of My Soul (2006) love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way. A thousand dangers threaten love, but if the couple defends it, it can be saved; it can grow like a tree and give shade and fruit, but that happens only when both partners participate. Isabel Allende Portrait in Sepia (2000) Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Henri Frederic Amiel, When a Woman Meets Jesus: Finding the Love Every Woman Longs For, Dorothy Valcarcel, p. 17. Love is merely a trick the DNA plays to replicate itself. the character Tyr Anasazi played by Keith Hamilton Cobb in the episode “Star-Crossed” of Season 1 of the American-Canadian television series Andromeda Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake. Jon Anderson, in "Loved by the Sun", from movie Legend (1985) (YouTube video) We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Maya Angelou, Love's Exquisite Freedom (2011) If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. Maya Angelou, Love's Exquisite Freedom (2011) Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. Maya Angelou, Love's Exquisite Freedom (2011) Love recognizes no barriers. Maya Angelou, Love's Exquisite Freedom (2011) We're all hostages to what we love. The only way to truly be free is to love nothing. And how meaningless would that be? Q (played by John de Lancie in Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 5 "Fly Me to the Moon" (March 31, 2022) by Cindy Appel. See also: Youtube Video "Q quote about love - Star trek: Picard S2" (22.10.2022) by user "Death.merchantt". Σχέτλι᾽ Ἔρως, μέγα πῆμα, μέγα στύγος ἀνθρώποισιν, ἐκ σέθεν οὐλόμεναί τ᾽ ἔριδες στοναχαί τε γόοι τε, ἄλγεά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν ἀπείρονα τετρήχασιν. Unconscionable Love, bane and tormentor of mankind, parent of strife, fountain of tears, source of a thousand ills. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book IV, lines 445–447 (tr. E. V. Rieu) Whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I-II, q. 32, art. 6 To love is to will the good of the other. Thomas Aquinas…