~ Love Quotes ~
LOVE'S DIVINITY, FAITH AND WISDOM
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of a genius.  Love, love, love, that is the soul of a genius."
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Love is a believing creature."
-Ovidio

"To fall in LOVE is to rise..."
-Upendra

"On Earth, no one knows what love is.  All we see and know is the effect of  love."
-"White Knight"

"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love.  And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love.  It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
-Helen Hayes

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."
-William Blake

"Love is not about conquest.  It is about surrender.  Whether it is the surrender to another person, to our deepest natures or to a higher power, it is the same.  It is the pathway through the illusions of life to the essence of our true nature, to that place or state of being we call home."
-"Schevene"

"Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I."
-Herbert Trench

"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."
-Vincent Van Gogh

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship.  Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
-Khalil Gibran

"Love is an energy - it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die."  (Celeste in "April Fools Day")
-Bryce Courtney

"If there is heaven on earth, it is this... it is this... it is this!" 
-Shah Jahan (builder of the Taj Mahal, for his beloved wife, Mumtaz-i-Mahal)

"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter too, be lovers in disguise."
-George Santayana

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly everytime he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beware you be not swallowed up in books!  An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."
-John Wesley

"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.  The real miracle is the love that inspires them.  In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle."
-Marianne Williamson

"Love surfeits not, lust like a glutton dies.
Love is all truth, lust full of forged lies."
-Shakespeare

"Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love."
-Albert Einstein

“Joy is love exalted; 
peace is love in repose; 
long-suffering is love enduring; 
gentleness is love in society; 
goodness is love in action; 
faith is love on the battlefield; 
meekness is love in school; 
and temperance is love in training.”
-Dwight Lyman Moody 

“Real love is perpetual.”
-Jill Harrison

“To love without expected return on my investment frees me to love with purity of heart, mind and soul...I am not distracted by selfish motive or disappointed by insensitivity.... I am free to love... just love.”
-L. Hodge

“True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery ("The Little Prince")

“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
 
“Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?”
-Wu Ti

“My first glance fell on your heart!”
-Johann F.C. Schiller

"You'll never know love until you surrender to it."
-Source Unknown

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