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May you find great value in these quotes by Paul Valery.
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
Politeness is organized indifference.
- Paul Valery
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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 comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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)
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
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
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
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
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
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
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
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
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
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with 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 hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller
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
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
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