We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This country, with its institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,
they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,
or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln
While civilization has been improving our houses,
it has not equally improved
the men who are to inhabit them.
It has created palaces, but it was
not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
- Henry David Thoreau
One cannot have wisdom without perspective,
but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to view every situation
as each person who is in any way affected
by that situation might view it.
Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history,
and therefore a historical perspective,
as well from as having the perspective of imagination -
the realm of the what-might-be
inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
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.
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
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
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
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
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 great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- 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
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
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
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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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