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Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
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
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- 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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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)
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.
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Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Choose love - always.
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I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 stronger than justice.
- Sting
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
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Love Without Limits.
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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
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
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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
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
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I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
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
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
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 does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
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
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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