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Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
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
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
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