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Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
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 me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, 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)
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
- 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
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
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
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- 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
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- 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
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
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