17 September 2025

My Unselfish Love. At 85: Frank A Hilario

On 2025 September 17, I Frank A Hilario is exactly 85 years old, thank God! Now then, I pledge “Like More, Live More, Love More!” The above love image (from Dreamstime, de.dreamstime.com) says, “Royalty-Free Vektor”; thus inspired, immediately i say this, “The victor in love cannot be loyalty-free.”

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(1) Saint Augustine: “Love is the beauty of the soul.”

(2) Aristotle’s love expanded: “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting all bodies.”

(3) H Jackson Brown Jr: “You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.”

(4) Jimi Hendrix: “The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.”

(5) Timothy Keller: “Our culture says that feelings of love are the bases for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.”

(6) New International Version: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”

(7) John Updike: “We are most alive when we’re in love.”

(8) Mantak Chia: “In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.”

(9) Aristotle: "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

(10) Robert Mitchum: “Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it.”

(11) Kathy Baker: “There's different kinds of love, darling. Some people you love no matter what, and others you love when the situation is right. To me, the best kind of love is no matter what kind.“

(12) Joseph Campbell: “Love is perfect kindness.”

(13) Bob Phillips: “Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.“

(14) Henry Van Dyke: “Love is not about getting, but giving.“

(15) Marilyn Monroe: “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go; things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right; you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself; and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.“

(16) Anne Morrow Lindbergh: “Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.”

(17) Wayne Dyer –- “Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.”

(18) Leo Buscaglia: “Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.”

(19)  Hermann Hesse: "If I know what love is, it is because of you."

(20) Anne Morrow Lindbergh: “Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.”

(21) Robert Breault: “Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.”

(22) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”

(23) David Viscott: “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

(24) Joseph Campbell: “Love is a friendship set to music.”

(25) Mahatma Gandhi: “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”

(26) Dr Seuss: “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

(27) Rumi: “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

(28) Eleanor Roosevelt: “The giving of love is an education in itself.”

(29) Oscar Wilde: “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

(30) Elbert Hubbard: “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

(31) John Lennon: “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”

(32) Albert Schweitzer: “Love is a better teacher than duty.”

(33) Harry Potter: “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”

(34) Nicholas Sparks: “Love is like the wind; you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”

(35) Timothy Keller: “Our culture says that feelings of love are the bases for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.”

(36) Khalil Gibran: “One day you will ask me which is more important: My life or yours? I will say mine, and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”

(37) Paulo Coelho: “Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.”

(38) John Updike: “We are most alive when we're in love.”

(39) Mark Twain: “Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes: none knows whence, and cannot explain itself.”

(40) Jules Renard: “Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”

(41) Chidanand Saraswati: “Love has no conditions. When we put conditions, when we put barriers and boundaries, then we lose love. Love is condition-less. Love is barrier-less. Look at the moon, sun, stars, trees. . . they are just on for everyone. When our love also flows for everyone, you become very natural.”

(42) John Keats: “I have so much of you in my heart.”

(43) Paulo Coelho: “We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.”

(44) e. e. cummings: “Love is the whole and more than all.”

(45): Charles Dickens: “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

(46): Everett Ruess: “Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others.”

(47): Loraine Boettner: “Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

(48) Bradley Cooper: "I hope it's okay if I love you forever."

(49) Joseph Campbell: "Love is a friendship set to music."

(50) Juno: “In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for what you are. Good mood, BAD mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you.”

(51) Zelda Fitzgerald: “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

(52) Hermann Hesse: “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

(53) Jane Austen: “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

(54) Bob Reiner: “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you wamt to rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

(55) Jerry Maguire: “You had me at hello.”

(56) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”

(57) Carl Sagan: “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” 

(58) Lee Brice: “Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse ‘I love you.’”

(59) Loraine Boettner: “Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

(60) Antoine De Saint-Exupery: ‘True love is inexhaustible. The more you give, the more you have.”

(61) Charles Bukowski: “If I never see you again, I will always carry you inside, outside; on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers, centers of what I am, of what remains.”

(62) JRR Tolkien: "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

(63) Milan Kundera: “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

(64) Elvis Presley: “Take my hand. Take my whole life, too. For I can’t help falling in love with you.”

(65) Taylor Jenkins Reid: “If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you.”  

(66) Henry David Thoreau: “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

(67) Leo Tolstoy: “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

(68)  Martin Luther King: “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”

(69) Nat King Cole: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”

(70) Helen Keller: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

(71) Katharine Hepburn: “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get: only with what you are expecting to give: which is everything.”

(72) Anonymous: “Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.”

(73) Helen Keller: “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that what we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

(74) Elie Wiesel: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

(75) Lao Tzu: “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

(76) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”

(77) Jules Renard: “Love is like an hour glass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”

(78) Kathy Baker: “There's different kinds of love, darling. Some people you love no matter what, and others you love when the situation is right. To me, the best kind of love is no matter what kind.”

(79) Oscar Wilde: “Who, being loved, is poor?”

(80) Mike Flanagan: "It's you. It's me. It's us."

(82) William W Purkey: “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.”

(83) Martin Luther King Jr: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

(84) Friedrich Nietzsche: “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

(85) Frank A Hilario: “Love is as deeply and as lovely as we make it!”@1923

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