Love is not a matter of counting the years, by Michele St. Amand

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
by Michele St. Amand

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

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

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau

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 me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

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

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

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

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

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

Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

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 that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

Thank you for visiting: Love is not a matter of counting the years, by Michele St. Amand.

Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

Friendship Quotes

Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"The Philosopher of Happiness" - is the author of 100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love, co-author of Simply An Inspired Life, speaker, personal coach, and creator of the popular Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote free email.>

Love is not a matter of counting the years,by Michele St. Amand

Friendship Quotes

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
by Michele St. Amand