Quotations
When Our friends encounter suffering, we can help them if we're near; Some may need a word of comfort, others just a listening ear.
We show love, true love, when we concern ourselves first and always with the way the other person feels not with how that other person is making us feel.
We long for expression of love, but frequently, at the critical moment, we pull back. We are afraid of closeness, afraid of love, afraid of the very thing we so desperately desire. Why? Because we don't want to get hurt.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise.
Love keeps no records of wrongs.
Build trust in each other. It encourages further sharing and openness.
A heartfelt tear can show such love as words can never do; It says, "I feel in part your pain, My heart goes out to you."
When you see faults in someone else, before you criticize. beware; For you have flaws and failures too that other people have to bear.
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard on another as more important than himself. Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
I went out to find a friend but could not find one there; I went out to be a friend, and friends are everywhere.
Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
If you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what.
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us be what we can be; A friend affirms us when we're weak; A friend gives strength to set us free.
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work; If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up.
An apology is a friendship preserver, an antidote for hatred, never a sign of weakness; It costs nothing but one's pride, always saves more than it costs, and is a device needed in every home.
A friend is a trusted confidant to whom I am mutually drawn as a companion and an ally, whose love for me is not dependent on my performance, and whose influence draws me closer to God.
Pride only breeds quarrel.
Let your affection be without hypocrisy.
Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.
Love and forgiveness are costly, but they are the price of good relationships.
A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned as it were with salt, so that you may know you should respond to each person.
Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man's friend deserts him. Many carry favor with a ruler, and everyone is the friend of a man who gives gifts. A poor man is shunned by all relatives-how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.
Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
Love demands your loving deeds; Look upon your brother's needs; Tell them that you love them true, Prove it by the deeds you do.
From seeds of envy in the heart grow tiny weeds of hate, and when allowed to get a start, much strife they generate.
Do not be misled; Bad company corrupts good character.
If only a word! But a word may harm and open a wound with its lingering smart; And a word may heal or a word may charm-If it comes direct from a loving heart.
Words of kindness spread so greatly, they give volume to one's voice; Words of joy and words of gladness make a humble heart rejoice.
Starting a quarrel is like creaching a dam; So drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and the more as you see the Days aprroaching.
When we hold our tongues and listen, we communicate our care; For an open ear speaks volumes to a heart that's in despair.
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly
When two souls that have shed their loneliness, embrace and melt into one; from out of lonliness, love is born.
Love can only be two colors which are black and white. It can't be neither or both. In other words, it can be everything or it can be nothing.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; Everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
You know you sincerely love someone when you want them to be happy...Even if their happiness means you're not part of it.
What is important is that on is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Lust is when you love what you see. Love is when you lust for what's inside.
Let no on who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
The only way to know when love is true is in the kiss. Because eyes can lie, touch can fool you, sweet talk can be convincing. But a kiss comes from the heart and feels magical when its true.
We are not the same persons this year at last; Nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
They say when love knocks on your door, open it. But do you know that sometimes love enters thru the backdoor and before you begin to notice it, its on its way out.
Love is like lightning: No one knows where it will strike until it has struck.
To infinite, ever present love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin, no sickness, nor death.
When I saw you, I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age but they die young.
Love is a condition in which happiness of another person is essential to your own.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
He who wants to do good, kncks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who loves us.
Any time not spent on love is wasted.
How long have we been together? Is the question. Not long enough is the answer.
Love is autonomous; it obeys only itself.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love is the soul of a genius.
Love seek not itself to please, nor for itself have any care, but for another gives it ease, and builds a heaven in hell's despair.
The sun can have the sky and it wouldn't matter. The night can have the stars and I wouldn't care. Tomorrow can be majestic yet remain empty, for it simply wouldn't matter without you there.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
True love never loses hope but always believes in its promise, no matter how long the time or how far the distance.
Goodbyes make you think. It makes you realize what you've had, what you've lost and what you've taken forgranted.
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Its easy to love somebody when everything is wonderful. The proof of someone's love is that they still love you when everything is awful.
A heart that loves is always young.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
If you have love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Love is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives longest.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
True love is a fortress from all sides. It will help you withstand the fierce storms and angry seas of misunderstanding.
Love wont be tampered with. Love wont go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again-my life seems to stop there... I see no further.
Love is like a roller coaster. There is some downs, but when you get to the ups, when you feel that high--NOTHING can pull you down, and all of the downs just disappear.