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Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lovers embrace that which is between them
rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky
and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Trust in dreams, for in them
is hidden the gate to eternity.
- Khalil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran
Time has been transformed, and we have changed;
it has advanced and set us in motion;
it has unveiled its face,
inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
- Khalil Gibran
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness;
and knows that yesterday is but today's memory
and tomorrow is today's dream.
- Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
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.
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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)
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
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
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
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
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 a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
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