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Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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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
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
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
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
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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)
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
Love Without Limits.
- 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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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)
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
- 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
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 a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
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