Quotes by Saint Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine

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God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine

He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine

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

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

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 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

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

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 Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

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

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

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

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

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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.

Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

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

Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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