This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us celebrate the occasion
with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise with the occasion.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
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 Without Limits.
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Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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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
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
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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.
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Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
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)
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
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
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do 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 like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
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
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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