But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
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But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
Love is our response to our highest values.
Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.
Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
Love is the strongest power there is.
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.
The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.
Ultimately, all thoughts are sponsored by love or fear. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based on these. And, in the end, there is really only one. Love. In truth, love is all there is.
Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.
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