Love is serene and calm ...
by Erica Jong

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

Related topics: Love Romantic

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

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

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong

Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong

He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong

The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong

If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong

We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong

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

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

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

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

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, 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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

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

This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

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

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

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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