TRUISMS ABOUT LOVE AND LIFE

Love yourself and your life and then you can love others

To live, is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler, Life and love.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. - Marth Beck

Love that is true lasts forever. - Unknown

To be loved is to live forever in someone's heart - Unknown

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and be loved is everything. - Unknown

The love in your heart wasn't meant there to stay. Love isn't love til you give it away. - jasmine

To live, is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler, Life and love

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." - Erich Fromm 1900-1980

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh, Ardele, 1948, (2, translated by Lucienne Hill)

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961, 34.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one lonely person, Into happiness again, I shall not live in vain.... - Emily Dickinson

It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it .... In our hands - Jaka

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you love something...let it go, if it comes back to you it was truly meant to be. - Unknown

"You never lose from loving, you lose from holding back" - Erin-Rose

One look at love & you may see, it weaves a web over mystery... For tattered threads will rend apart & hope has a place in a lover's heart - Enya

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo

The course of true love never did run smooth. - Shakespeare

To have true love you must have total trust, without trust you can't have true love ..............So believe in and trust the one you truely love. - Jackie

To love a thing means wanting it to live. - Confucius, Analects, 6th century B.C.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line - Lucille Ball

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in giving creates love. - Lao-Tze

Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi

And remember, as it was written...to love another person is to see the face of God. - From Les Miserables

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. - Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. --H.L. Mencken

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

One does not fall into love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. --Karl Menninger

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken. --Karl Menninger

We love the things we love for what they are. --Robert Frost

Absense is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. --Bussy-Rabutin

A heart that loves is always young. --Greek Proverb

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world!

J.C. Cloutier

You say my eyes are beautiful, that is because I am looking at you.

J.C. Cloutier

More Truisms..

Love yourself and your life and then you can love others AlceOrchid@aol.com

Life gives us time,,,,, Only love gives it meaning !!!!! Ruthann

The love in your heart wasn't meant there to stay. Love isn't love til you give it away. jasmine@geocities.com

alone.all alone again.here i am without you.maybe it is our destiny that we can not be together.love is simple.love is hard.love is something that breaks our heart.memories is all that's left.im alone and i have to wait.im down but i have my faith. PiNaY221@aol.com

Trust in what your heart tells you...Believe in what you know inside, and remain true to yourself. Don't look back, but look forward to all possibilities. SunzetSea@aol.com

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Sometimes the heart sees what the eyes can't. Unknown

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. Helen Keller.