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Fruits of Love
P h o t o g r a p h e d b y E l d a d M a e s t ro
And God said, “Let there be light�: and there was Genesis 1:3
light.
They say that there is love in the world,
what is love?
Chayim Nachman Bialik
waters
Many cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it.
Song of Solomon 8:7
flame
Young love is a ; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Love is always nourished by Lao Tzu
hope.
like
Love comforteth after rain.
sunshine
William Shakespeare
Rise up, my love,
my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Song of Solomon, 2. 10
Love is the universal sublime quality causing man to yearn to grasp the whole mysterious universe in his heart and sacrifice it to another.
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
dependent
Any love that is on something-when the thing ceases, the love also ceases. But a love that is not dependent on anything never ceases.
Mishna - Ethics of the Fathers chapter 5 - phrase 16
Love is a
path, not a necessity. Anonymous
A person who does not consider
disadvantages of a loved one
the as virtues – does not love. Johann Volfgang von Goethe
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
All you
need is love.
John Lennon
If you want to be loved,
be lovable.
Ovid
True love begins where nothing is expected in return.
Antoine de Saint-ExupĂŠry
a sin
Love is not a prohibition and not , it itself is the law of nature and nature knows no prohibitions and sins.
Yehuda Burla
no love
There is where there is no will.
Mohandas Gandhi
Love is the rhythm of two souls merging into a compatible sound.
Micha Yosef Bedichevski
Except for the sole purpose of this moment – nothing exists. Man’s life is a series of moments. If he is wise enough to grasp
this moment,
he will have nothing to do or strive for.
Nachman Gershonovich
Age does not protect you from love,
but love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau
But if you truly love something, or someone, then give to it, or to him, or to her, all you have, and all you are. And don’t bother yourself with the rest. Romain Gary
The best and most beautiful things in life are not seen or heard. They are through the heart.
felt
Helen Keller
Each one prays to God according to his own Mohandas GandhiÂ
light.
And I've learned: There's a name for every crease and eyelash, for every hair on my exposed flesh, and the scent of childhood, of glue and pine, is the fragrance of at night.
bodies
Leah Goldberg.
Motherhood:
All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
Love is
egoism for two.
Antoine de Salle
many
There are as minds as there are heads, there are as many types of love as there are hearts. Lev Tolstoy
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an
accomplice.
Charles Baudelaire
When love comes upon us it is synonymous with self-sacrifice and devotion. O. Henry
grow
The heart is like a garden. You can compassion or disgust, hostility or love, which flowers do you choose to grow? Budha
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, like nobody's watching and live like it's heaven on earth.
dance
Mark Twain
Love is the essence of all
pleasures combined.
Jean Paul Richter
paradoxes
Love is a fabric of , occurring in an endless blend of shapes and colors enabling you to say anything that crosses your mind, and it will probably be true.
Pink
three
I have things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
ourselves in others
Love is discovering and the joy of this revelation. Alexander McCall Smith
mix
Lovers love with lust, like a tourist thinking he likes a certain city, only because he dined there to his heart’s content. Paul Z’raldy
wounds
The
of love can only be healed by the one who made them. Fulvius Cyrus
You know you are in love
when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
David Levesque
gazing
Love does not consist in at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
heart
Things that come out of the enter the heart, even into the heart they came out from. Rabbi Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra
why
Ask the child it was born Ask the flower why it blooms Ask the sun why it shines I love you for I must love you.
Upton Sinclair
what he is.
Learn to love a man for Do not seek to find in him what is within you. Yonatan Netanyahu
Be who you are
and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss
passions
Love is of all the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tzu
When husband and wife are worthy, the Shechinah (divine presence) abides with them; when they are not worthy consumes them.
fire
Babylonian Talmud, Sotah, p xvii
Being deeply loved by someone gives you while loving someone deeply gives you courage.Â
strength,
Lao Tzu
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul And sings the tunes without the words And never stops - at all. Emily Dickinson
languages
Lovers translate each other into that no outsider can understand. Richard Sherwil
medicine
Love is the most tested for the soul’s wounds.
Rabbi Naftali Zvi from Rufshcitz
dispute between reason
Love is the
and the reflexes.
Magnus Hirschfeld
The challenge (and highwire fun) of love is finding ways to make each day a fresh with one's partner.
adventure
Diane Ackermann
simple
The things are all and living, and yes, you may touch them, And yes, you may love. Leah Goldberg
end
And in the The love you take Is equal to the love you make.
The Beatles
All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from
love.
Eleanor Farjeon
Love and passion are the wings of wind soaring to
greatness.
Johann Volfgang von Goethe
all times
Love is a fruit in season at , and within reach of every hand.Â
Mother Teresa
mirror
Love is like a . When you love another, you become their mirror, and they become yours, reflecting each others’ love, seeing eternity.
Leo Buscaglia
Keep love in your heart.
A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde
self-love in hatred
There is more
than in love itself.
Le Rochpe
Laughter is
the closest distance between two people.
Voctor Borqe
Only from the heart Can you touch the Rumi
sky.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
generous
Love is the most horrible and of all passions; it is the only one that includes in its dreams the happiness of another person. Alphonse Karr
beautiful
Ah, you are , my beloved, ah, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down the mountains of Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of ewes to be shorn, which come up from the washing, All of them big with twins, none of them thin and barren. Your lips are like a scarlet strand; your mouth is lovely. Your cheek is like a half-pomegranate behind your veil. Your neck is like David's tower girt with battlements; Song of Songs chap 4
Life is a stream on which we strew Petal by petal the
flower of our heart;
Amy Lowell
living
We make a by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
to live
There are only two ways your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
At the
center of non-violence
stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King
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