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Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi 
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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- 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
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
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
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)
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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.
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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
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
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
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
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
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
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
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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