Quotes by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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 Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

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

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

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

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

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

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

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie

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

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

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

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra

Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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.

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

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha

A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)

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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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie