To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
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 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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
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)
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
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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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