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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
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Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love Without Limits.
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I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
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Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
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If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
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Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
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Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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