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Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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.
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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)
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
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
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 a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
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
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- 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 saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
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
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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