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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
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.
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
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- 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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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- 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
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Know that love has no limits.
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All you need is love.
- John Lennon
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 regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- 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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