Bench Quotes

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver

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

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

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

Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm

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

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

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

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

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

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

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

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

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

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

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

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

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

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