Quotations By Subject : LOVE

Quotations By Subject : LOVE Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…? Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.