Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love Without Limits.
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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
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 is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
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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.
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Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
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Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
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Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- 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
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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