Ample Quotes

Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

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I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

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

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

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

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

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

Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung

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

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

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

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

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

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

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

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

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

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

If we 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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