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Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
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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
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
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Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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 Without Limits.
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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 an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
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Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
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)
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Our opportunity is to visualize a kinder world.
To sing glad songs of tomorrow -
imagining a world of love -
of the whole world filled with love.
To offer our hand... often.
To breathe deeply and honor ourselves.
To pause and contemplate... just because.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
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