I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
I claim that human mind or human society
is not divided into watertight compartments
called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and,
like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year
and of the season of which we are born.
Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
- Carl Jung
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.
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
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
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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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
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that love has no limits.
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Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
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Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
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
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
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
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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)
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
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
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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