Quotes by Jules Renard

Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

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

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

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

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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)

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

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

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

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

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

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

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine

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

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

Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

All you need is love.
- John Lennon

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

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

I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau

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