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Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
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One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion
is the truest to every man even if it stands low
in the scales of philosophical comparison.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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 granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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)
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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 the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
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
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- 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
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
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
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 is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
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