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May you find great value in these Defenses quotes and sayings.
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Related topics: Motivational Cooperation Teamwork
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problem in defense is
how far you can go without destroying from within
what you are trying to defend from without.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A nation that continues year after year
to spend more money on military defense
than on programs of social uplift
is approaching spiritual doom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit
which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men,
in all lands, everywhere.
Destroy this spirit and you have planted
the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
- Abraham Lincoln
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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 me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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.
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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)
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)
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
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
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
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
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
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
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- 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
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
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows;
your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
- Osho
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
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