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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. ...
by Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Related topics: Wisdom Love

When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

 

The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

Every man casts a shadow;
not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit.
This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,
it falls opposite to the sun;
short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
- Henry David Thoreau

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin

Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

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

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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.

Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

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

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

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)

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles

Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew

Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

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

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran


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