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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
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However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
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
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
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 key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- 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
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we 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
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
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