♡❤ Love is? - Favorite love quotes ♡❤

Sparkles wrote:I thought it might be fun to write down some love quotes, that you've heard, or know of.

So I'll start with:

If you love something, set it free
if it comes back, it's yours
if it doesn't, it never was.

I like this one.

Love is what "you" want it to be......

"You make me want to be a better man"

only through love, we can connect. ( made up my own!)

Love is the greatest gift one can give themselves and to others.
Feel it, live it and let it flow freely.
Watch it work its miracles.
This is life.

This was written in my school Diary, which I've lost, but do remember it. So I'd like to write this down in here. It's more of a short Poem.

Love is good
love is bad
sometimes happy
sometimes sad
but can break your heart in two
if you love someone that doesn't love you

Just looking in your eyes, makes the whole world disappear.

Love is: Never having to say you're sorry.

All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us.
- Kevin Arnold (played by Daniel Stern) narrating in The Wonder Years

That's love too. It ain't sex, and maybe that's too bad, but you know, Cindy, when a man and a woman care for each other, that doesn't always mean they have to sleep together or live together.
- Orson Scott Card in Homebody

Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart — builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody — for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
-Robert G. Ingersoll, in Orthodoxy, Works, Vol. II (1884), p. 420.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung, in The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)

Nucky wrote:Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart — builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody — for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
-Robert G. Ingersoll, in Orthodoxy, Works, Vol. II (1884), p. 420.

That is amazing...breathtakingly beautiful words.

Sparkles wrote:Love is: Never having to say you're sorry.

I was going to post this one earlier. There is a lot implied by these words: I read it as caring enough that our own actions never lead to the need for apology- that's the heart of it for me...it ain't a free pass! LOL

Love is all that matters...

Love is about expectations and illusions, true love is letting all of that go.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love
You make


Beatles

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
Neil Gaiman

This guy knows how to describe and feel his "falling in love space"......

Yep! But the only way to overcome the pain is through loving more. Not necessarily that person, but firstly yourself and then others openly and freely.

"Love is: Everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."

merging your cores and letting go?

ove iLs: The only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
I think so too that this is a nice way to look at human's imperfection. love is still part of being human and will always be.

But the only way to overcome the pain is through loving more. Not necessarily that person, but firstly yourself and then others openly and freely.

That is damn right! but not easy!

merging your cores and letting go?

hmm. I have to think about this one. after you merge your cores, I you will be able to be more of a loving person. letting go, helps you opening up I think

Sparkles wrote: Love is: The only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Yes. Exactly.

"Love is: a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief."