The Characteristics of Love

The loving are the daring.
--Bayard Taylor

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
--Douglas Yates

Real love stories never have endings.
--Richard Bach

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
--John 4:18

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
--Lao Tzu

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
--e.e. cummings

[In wise love] each defines the secret self of the other, and refusing to believe in the mere daily self, creates a mirror where the lover or the beloved sees an image to copy in daily life; for love also creates the Mask.
--William Butler Keats

True Love comes from God, and love is demonstrated through character.
--Philemon Laida

To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.
--John Gray, Ph.D.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward in the same direction.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
--Anne Swetchine

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
--Henry Ward Beecher

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best proof of love is trust.
--Dr. Joyce Brothers

There is but one genuine love-potion -
consideration
--Menander

Love can hope where reason would despair
--George, Lord Lyttleton

Respect is love in plain clothes.
--Frankie Byrne

Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me."
--Author Unknown

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

To love is natural. To understand the variations of love is wisdom.
--Author Unknown

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
--1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.Against such things
there is no law. Notice the word *fruit* is singular, yet it list nine.
--Galatians 5:22 (NIV)

So there is only one fruit of the Spirit. That fruit is love.
The others...
Joy - love smiling
Peace - love resting
Patience - love waiting
Kindness - love showing itself sensitive to others' feelings
Goodness - love making allowances
Faithfulness - love proving constant
Gentleness - love yielding
Self-control - love triumphing over selfish inclinations
--Source Unknown

Put on love, which binds everything together in harmony.
--Colossians 3: 12-17

What do women want? To be treated like a queen;
but by a king.... not a pawn.
--James Robison

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
--Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness
which becomes at times almost insupportable.
--Victor Hugo

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
--Victor Frankel

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
--Author Unknown

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy
--Marguerite De Valois

Some things are loved because they are valuable;
others are valuable because they are loved.
--Author Unknown

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
--Leo Buscaglia

True love is knowing a person's faults, and loving them even more for them.
--Mandy Hampton

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.
--Todd Ruthman