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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
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)
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Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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 love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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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."
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Choose love - always.
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There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
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Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
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We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know that love has no limits.
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If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
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
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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