Quotes on Love Is

Love is the poetry of the senses.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Love 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.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

If love is universal, no one can be left out.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

I love all the things there are, _x000D_ and of all fires _x000D_ love is the only inexhaustible one; _x000D_ and that's why I go from life to life.

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.

Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself.