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Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
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The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
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)
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
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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.
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
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
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
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
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
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
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
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
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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