Love sought is good,
by William Shakespeare

Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare

Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare

When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare

Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare

To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

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

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

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

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

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

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

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna

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

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

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

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

We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

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

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Love sought is good,
by William Shakespeare