When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Related topics: Wisdom
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cleansing fire of Spirit
consumes the troubles of this world.
Feed your concerns to the fire.
Breathe deeply and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our world is magnificent - all of it.
Rejoice and give thanks.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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 me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
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
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 stronger than justice.
- Sting
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
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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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