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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.
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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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

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

The opposite of love is not hate, 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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

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

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

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

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

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

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

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

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

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

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

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

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

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran

Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

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

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

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 love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz


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