爱Love

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels， but have not love， I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge， and if I have a faith that can move mountains， but have not love， I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames， but have not love， I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient， love is kind. It does not envy， it does not boast， it is not proud. {5} It is not rude， it is not self-seeking， it is not easily angered， it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects， always trusts， always hopes， always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies， they will cease； where there are tongues， they will be stilled； where there is knowledge， it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part， {10} but when perfection comes， the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child， I talked like a child， I thought like a child， I reasoned like a child. When I became a man， I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror； then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part； then I shall know fully， even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain： faith， hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. ， 1 Corinthians 13 NIV

　　Love and stoplights can be cruel. ， Sesame Street， U.S. children's television show

　　Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary， yet no one agrees on just what it is.

　　-- Diane Ackerman

　　Love begins with a smile， grows with a kiss， and ends with a teardrop.

　　-- Anonymous

　　The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

　　-- Anonymous

　　We always believe our first love is our last， and our last love our first.

　　-- Anonymous

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

　　-- Anonymous

　　Wind is to fire like distance is to love； it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.

　　-- Anonymous

　　Accept the things to which fate binds you， and love the people with whom fate brings you together， but do so with all your heart.

　　-- Marcus Aurelius

　　If it is your time， love will track you down like a cruise missile.

　　-- Lynda Barry

　　All you need is love.

　　-- The Beatles， song title

　　And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

　　-- The Beatles， The last lyric of their last song

　　ARDOR， n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

　　-- Ambrose Bierce， The Devil's Dictionary， 1911

　　LOVE， n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder...... It is sometimes fatal， but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

　　-- Ambrose Bierce， The Devil's Dictionary， 1911

　　NEIGHBOR， n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves， and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

　　-- Ambrose Bierce， The Devil's Dictionary， 1911

　　Love matches are made by people who are content， for a month of honey， to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

　　-- Countess of Blessington

　　Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

　　-- Charlie Brown， character in "Peanuts" comic strip， created by Charles Schultz

　　Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave， and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you， there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other， we do not really live very satisfactorily； that there can really be life only where there really is， in just this sense， love.

　　-- Frederick Buechner， The Magnificent Defeat

　　Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

　　-- David Chambless

　　Love means to love that which is unlovable； or it is no virtue at all.

　　-- G. K. Chesterton

　　The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

　　-- G. K. Chesterton

　　Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house， you can never tell.

　　-- Joan Crawford

　　Love is shown in your deeds， not in your words.

　　-- Fr. Jerome Cummings

　　Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

　　-- Lord Dewar

　　Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

　　-- Albert Einstein

　　Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

　　-- Albert Einstein

　　Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

　　-- French Proverb

　　Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

　　-- Sigmund Freud

　　Immature love says： "I love you because I need you." Mature love says： "I need you because I love you."

　　-- Erich Fromm

　　Where there is love there is life.

　　-- Gandhi

　　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

　　We love because it's the only true adventure.

　　-- Nikki Giovanni

　　We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

　　-- William Gladstone

　　There is a courtesy of the heart； it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

　　-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

　　Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

　　-- Matt Groening， Love is Hell

　　Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over， pinning you underneath. At night， the ice weasels come.

　　-- Matt Groening， Love is Hell

　　People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

　　-- John Harrigan

　　Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

　　-- Louise Hay

　　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

　　Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

　　-- M. Hirschfield

　　Love is like pi - natural， irrational， and very important.

　　-- Lisa Hoffman

　　The love we give away is the only love we keep.

　　-- Elbert Hubbard

　　Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

　　-- Victor Hugo

　　Love， I find， is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves， though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

　　-- Zora Neale Hurston

　　The closer I'm bound in love to you， the closer I am to free.

　　-- Indigo Girls， song lyric

　　I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

　　-- Robert G. Ingersoll

　　Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

　　-- Samuel Johnson

　　Everybody can be great...... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

　　-- Martin Luther King， Jr.

　　Hatred paralyzes life； love releases it.

　　Hatred confuses life； love harmonizes it.

　　Hatred darkens life； love illumines it.

　　-- Martin Luther King， Jr.

　　Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge， aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.

　　-- Martin Luther King， Jr.

　　To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

　　-- Lao Tzu

　　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.

　　-- D. H. Lawrence

　　Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

　　-- Michael Leunig

　　An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds， for love is measured by fullness， not by reception.

　　-- Harold Loukes

　　To love another person is to see the face of God.

　　-- Lyric from Les Miserables

　　For the memory of love is sweet， though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure， assuage what I find of pain.

　　-- Lyster

　　Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

　　-- W. Somerset Maugham

　　Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

　　-- H. L. Mencken

　　Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

　　-- H. L. Mencken

　　Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

　　-- H. L. Mencken

　　Love cures people， both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

　　-- Dr. Karl Menninger

　　Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

　　-- Jeanne Moreau

　　The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

　　-- Mother Teresa

　　We can do no great things； only small things with great love.

　　-- Mother Teresa

　　Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love， love， love， that is the soul of genius.

　　-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

　　Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

　　-- George Jean Nathan

　　True， we love life， not because we are used to living， but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love， but there is also always some reason in madness.

　　-- Friedrich Nietzsche， Thus Spoke Zarathustra， First Part： On Reading and Writing

　　To be able to say how much love， is love but little.

　　-- Petrarch

　　Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.

　　-- Theodor Reik

　　We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

　　-- Agnes Repplier

　　Love is like the measles. The older you get it， the worse the attack.

　　-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart

　　For one human being to love another： that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks； the ultimate， the last test and proof， the work for which all other work is but preparation.

　　-- Rainer Maria Rilke

　　This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love； the more they give， the more they possess.

　　-- Rainer Maria Rilke

　　The bottom line is that （a） people are never perfect， but love can be， （b） that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed， and （c） doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover， instead of creating the perfect love.

　　-- Tom Robbins

　　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

　　In endowing us with memory， nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation， the truth of immortality......The most ideal human passion is love， which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

　　-- George Santayana， Reason in Religion

　　The course of true love never did run smooth.

　　-- William Shakespeare

　　Love looks not with the eyes， but with the mind； And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

　　-- William Shakespeare， A Midsummer Night's Dream， Act i. Sc. 1.

　　Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

　　-- George Bernard Shaw

　　The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me.

　　-- George Bernard Shaw

　　Soul meets soul on lovers lips.

　　-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

　　Trouble is a part of your life， and if you don't share it， you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough.

　　-- Dinah Shore

　　One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life： that word is love.

　　-- Sophocles

　　Love is stronger than justice.

　　-- Sting

　　To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

　　-- Karen Sunde

　　'Tis better to have loved and lost

　　Than never to have loved at all.

　　-- Alfred， Lord Tennyson， In Memoriam， 1850， line 27， stanza 4

　　I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts， then there is no hurt， but only more love.

　　-- Mother Teresa

　　We can do not great things - only small things with great love.

　　-- Mother Theresa

　　The first duty of love is to listen.

　　-- Paul Tillich

　　If love is the answer， could you rephrase the question？

　　-- Lily Tomlin

　　Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford， as smart as Henry Kissinger， as noble as Ralph Nader， as funny as Woody Allen， and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen， as smart as Jimmy Conners， as funny as Ralph Nader， as athletic as Henry Kissinger， and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.

　　-- Judith Viorst

　　Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident， a tight girdle， a higher tax bracket， or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

　　-- Judith Viorst

　　Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

　　-- Judith Viorst

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

　　-- John Wesley

　　Who， being loved， is poor？

　　-- Oscar Wilde

　　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 is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it， to experience love in ourselves and others， is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

　　-- Marianne Williamson， A Return to Love

　　You can't buy love， but you can pay heavily for it.

　　-- Henny Youngman

　　Honor the ocean of love.

　　-- George de Benneville

　　Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones， as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

　　-- Fran？？ois de La Rouchefoucauld

　　It is with true love as it is with ghosts； everyone talks about it， but few have seen it.

　　-- Fran？？ois de La Rouchefoucauld

　　There is only one kind of love， but there are a thousand imitations.

　　-- Fran？？ois de La Rouchefoucauld

　　Love does not consist in gazing at each other， but in looking outward together in the same direction.

　　-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

　　We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

　　-- Mme de Sta