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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi 
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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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
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
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
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
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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Love Without Limits.
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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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Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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)
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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.
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Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
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
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
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Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
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Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
I argue thee that love is life.
And life hath immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
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Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent
then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
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