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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you'll help them to become
what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
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
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)
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Choose love - always.
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Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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