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May you find great value in these quotes by James A. Baldwin.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
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
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
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
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
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
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
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 is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
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
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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