Quotes by James A. Baldwin

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

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

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

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

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

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

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin

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

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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)

Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew

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

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

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

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

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

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

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

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

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

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

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

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

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

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

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

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

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

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

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