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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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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.
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Love Without Limits.
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Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
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
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
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Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
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Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
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
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
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
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
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Know that love has no limits.
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
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Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
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
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
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
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
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