Love

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on 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. -St Paul: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done -Mother Teresa Love understands all languages. - Romanian Proverb To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. - William M. Thackeray Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it. -Pope John Paul II And now these three remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love. - I Corinthians, chapter 13 It is love that makes the impossible possible. - Indian Proverb If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -Pope John Paul II To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The more I give to thee, the more I have.' - William Shakespeare I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - Mother Teresa What will survive of us is love.' - Philip Larkin The mind determines what is possible. The heart surpasses it. - Pilar Colinta Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. -Pope John Paul II Where love is, no room is too small. - Talmud To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott Are we to love only those who deserve our love? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. - Matthew 5:43-45 We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. -Mother Teresa Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. - Goethe Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love. - Mother Teresa Love makes everything that is heavy light. - Thomas p Kempis I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - Mother Teresa