Love

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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--1 Corinthians 13 NIV

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

--Sesame Street, U.S. children's television show

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

-- Diane Ackerman

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

-- Anonymous

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

-- Anonymous

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

-- Anonymous

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

-- Anonymous

Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.

-- Anonymous

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

-- Marcus Aurelius

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

-- Lynda Barry

All you need is love.

-- The Beatles, song title

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