Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. ...
by Mae West

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West

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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West

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

Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West

Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West

Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West

It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel

Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West

A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West

Don't marry a man to reform him -
that's what reform schools are for.
- Mae West

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

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

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

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

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

All you need is love.
- John Lennon

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

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

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 love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

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

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

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles

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

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa

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

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

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

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

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

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