Love
I love receiving letters from my mum while I'm here. It's strange to think that I only really talk to her and dad on the phone about twice a week, but I've adapted well to it, I think. And getting letters from her is fantastic! It makes me feel warm and loved :)
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Some quotes about love that I wanted to share:
"And now I will show you the most excellent way.
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. 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. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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. For we know in part and we prophecy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 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. 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.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
~ Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians. 1 Corinthians 12:31 and 13, the Bible.
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
~ Bertrand Russell.
"Nothing takes the taste of out peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
~ Charlie Brown, Peanuts.
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be ... it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for."
~ Erica Jong.
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
~ Henry David Thoreau.
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Some quotes about love that I wanted to share:
"And now I will show you the most excellent way.
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. 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. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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. For we know in part and we prophecy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 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. 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.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
~ Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians. 1 Corinthians 12:31 and 13, the Bible.
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
~ Bertrand Russell.
"Nothing takes the taste of out peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
~ Charlie Brown, Peanuts.
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be ... it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for."
~ Erica Jong.
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
~ Henry David Thoreau.