To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance
or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Namaste is a greeting of unity and acceptance
that recognizes the equality of all,
and pays honor to the sacredness of interconnection.
The sense of Namaste is
"The God in me greets the God in you,
I bow to the divine in you."
While saying Namaste, press the palms of the hands together
in front of the heart and bow the head slightly.
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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.
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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 one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Love Without Limits.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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
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.
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Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
If you 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 must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
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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
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Choose love - always.
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Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
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
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- 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
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