What Is Love?

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.
- La Rochefoucauld

Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.
- James Thurber & E.B.White

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

In love there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
- French Proverb

When you have nothing left but love, then for the first time you become aware that love is enough.
- Anonymous

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
- Harlan Ellison

Love makes difficult things easy and almost unworthy of note.
- St. Thomas Aquinas

Love is a canvas, funished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire

Love is the wisdom of the fool, and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.
- Shakespeare

It is impossible to love and be wise.
- Francis Bacon

Love is letting go of fear.
- Gerald G. Jampolsky

On this earth,
though far and near,
without love,
there's only fear.
- Pearl S. Buck

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
- William Cowper

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
- Robert Frost

Who so loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The loving are the daring.
- Bayard Taylor

Love must be learned, and learned again and again;
there is no end to it.
- Katherine Ann Porter

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
- Benjamin Franklin

There is no greater glory than love,
nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
- Lope de Vega

Love withers under constraint; its very essence is liberty; it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited, where its votaries live in confidence, equality, and unreserve...
- Mary Shelley

Love is a human religion in which another is believed in.
- Robert Seldénburg

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Love lights more fires than hate extinquishes.
- Ella Wilcox

True Union, or love proper, exists only between living beings who are alike in power and thus in one another's eyes.
- Georg Hegal

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo

We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.
- Leo Tolstoy

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
- Pablo Casals

Listening is love in action.
- Leo Buscaglia

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- Oscar Wilde

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love.
- Buddha

The paradox of love is that it is the highest degree of awareness of the self as a person and the highest degree of absorption in the other.
- Rollo May

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.
- Leonardo daVinci

Love is never having to say you're sorry.
- Love Story

Another aspect of the pattern is that one falls in love not by design and conscious choice, but according to some accident of fate over which the victim has no control.
- Sydney M. Greenfield

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate. He who loves, finds the gate open.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We cannot really love anybody with whom we can never laugh.
- Agnes Repplier

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao-Tzu

Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
- Zona Gale

Love, kindled by virtue, always kindles another love, providing its flame shines forth.
- Dante

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

No knight can be brave unless he is in love;
Love gives the knight his courage.
- Philippe de Mezieres

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist upon its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
-I Corr. 13:4-8, RSV

I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.
- Donne

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H.L. Mencken

In Love the paradon occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- Erich Fromm

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
- Ernest Hemingway

Where you find no love, put love, and you will find love.
- John of the Cross

Love is like an epidemic - the more one is afraid, the more vulnerable one is.
- S.R.N. Chamfort

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell,
where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell.
- Richard Barnfield

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present...
- C.S. Lewis

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
- Von Munch Bellinghausen

One forgives to the degree one loves.
- La Rochefaucauld

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do.
- David Wilkerson

Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.
- Oscar Wilde

Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it for a while.
- Westley, The Princess Bride

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
- Goethe

Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.
- Theodor Storm

Since we shall love each other, I shall be great, and you rich.
- Victor Hugo

He who is not impatient is not in love.
- Italian Proverb

Love is not for the easily defeated or the quickly disillisioned.
- Leo Buscaglia

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
- Kahil Gibran

Soon or late love is his own avenger.
- Byron : Don Juan IV

Love is supreme and inconditional; like is nice but limited.
- Duke Ellington

Some people never say the words "I love you" for like a child they're longing to be told.
- Paul Simon

Our lives are shaped by those who love us - by those who refuse to love us.
- Anonymous