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I love and treasure individuals as I meet them;
I loathe and despise the groups
they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
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One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
- George Carlin
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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)
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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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
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
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
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
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Only love and death will change all things.
- 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
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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