One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, 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 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.
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love Without Limits.
- 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
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
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)
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
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
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
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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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