Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Grace has been defined as the outward expression
of the inward harmony of the soul.
- William Hazlitt
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In this outward and physical ceremony,
we attest once again to the inner
and spiritual strength of our Nation.
As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say:
"We must adjust to changing times,
and still hold to unchanging principles."
- Jimmy Carter
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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love Without Limits.
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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
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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 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.
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
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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Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
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Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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
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
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
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
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
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
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Return love for hate.
- 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
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
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
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
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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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