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I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
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)
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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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
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
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
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
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 the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
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 an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
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