What is Love? (Part 1)
Since this site, this blog, this business is all about love it seems only right that we should start to establish exactly what love is. So this will be an ongoing series as we try to answer that simple question that has complex answers. So without further ado What is Love?
So for this first segment I'm not going to write about my thoughts or opinions but instead share some quotes about love. I invite everyone to share their comments below or on our Facebook page. Let us know which quote is your favorite and why! We'd love to hear your thoughts, see your own favorite quotes, and share the love! If you'd like to make a blog entry as part of the "What is Love?" series please let us know!
"Only love let's us see normal things in an extraordinary way."
~ Anonymous
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.” ~ Mother Teresa
“Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” ~ Erich Fromm
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.” ~ T. S. Eliot
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
~ Robert Frost
“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured – yet is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession ever could.” ~ Barbara De Angelis
“Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.” ~ Ralph Waldo Trine
“Love Is An Act Of Endless Forgiveness, A Tender Look Which Becomes A Habit." ~ Peter Ustinov
“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.” ~ Jean Anouil
“Love is a wonderful thing. You never have to take it away from one person to give to another. There’s always more than enough to go around.” ~ Pamela de Roy
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” ~ Voltaire
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” ~ Barbara De Angelis
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” ~ Eva Gabor
"The essence of love is kindness."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.” ~ Karl Menninger
“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.” ~ Victor Hugo
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” ~ Alexander Smith
"Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
~ Karl Menninger
"Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy."
~ Ralph Connor
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~ Aristotle
“Love is effortless attention.” ~ Guy Finley
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
~ Zora Neale Hurston
“Love is energy of life.” ~ Robert Browning
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
~ Franklin P. Jones
“Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.” ~ June Masters Bacher
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” ~ Maya Angelou
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.” ~ Lisa Hoffman
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” ~ Dorothy Parker
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."
~ Karen Sunde
