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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