OrGaya Fruts of Love

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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

Photography & Editing: Eldad Maestro Graphic Design: Dalit Pessach Text advisor & English: Iris Shelemay-Lieberman Editing assistance: Dr. Mor Furbin Photography assistance: Rachel Fux Š Copyright 2011, all rights reserved to Eldad Maestro.

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