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Fortune and love befriend the bold.
- Ovid
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The woman who can create her own job
is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
- Amelia Earhart
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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 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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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 when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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 me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
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
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 is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- 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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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)
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
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
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
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 alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Love what is.
- Byron Katie
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
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