The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
- Thomas Jefferson
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The whole commerce between master and slave
is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,
the most unremitting despotism on the one part,
and degrading submissions on the other.
Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
We must free ourselves of the hope
that the sea will ever rest.
We must learn to sail in high winds.
- Aristotle Onassis
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
My life is the eye of the hurricane -
an island of calm in a sea of uncertainty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
We are tied to the ocean.
And when we go back to the sea,
whether it is to sail or to watch -
we are going back from whence we came.
- John F. Kennedy
If we fail to plan, we merely bob helplessly -
like a cork on the sea of life.
If we resist whatever life delivers to us,
we create untold misery for ourselves.
If we act with vision and commitment,
and then accept whatever Spirit provides,
we live a life of purpose and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition
will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea.
I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Jonas Salk
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
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 is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
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
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
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
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
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)
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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