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Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80 talking about marriage and husbands
Sep 10, 2025
Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.
I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.
I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.
Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.
There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.
The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.
The definition of love is giving.
My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.
Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”
Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another. You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love. I like this definition of love because it's not just for the romantic lovers out there but the love of a friend, a mother, sibling - all kinds of love.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
For those who love... time is eternity.
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.
Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.
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