Love looks through a telescope;
by Josh Billings

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings

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

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

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 Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- 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 possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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.

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

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

Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine

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

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

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

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

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