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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
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Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
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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)
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
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
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
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Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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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Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- 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
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
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
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
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