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Love is the greatest medicine.  I ask to be healing medicine for others.  I ask my heart
to expand its boundaries and to love others as they wish to be loved.  I ask my heart
to expand its boundaries and open to my being loved as I wish to be loved.

Julia Cameron

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment,
even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race.
One has faith, hope, and charity for another being,
perhaps but the creation of the imagination; still it is
a great advance for a person to be profoundly loving,
even in his or her imagination.

Arthur Helps

Love is the only service that power
cannot command and money cannot buy.

Anon

Hyla Brook

By June our brook's run out of song and speed.
Sought for much after that, it will be found
Either to have gone groping underground
(And taken with it all the Hyla breed
That shouted in the mist a month ago,
Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow)--
Or flourished and come up in jewel-weed,
Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent
Even against the way its waters went.
Its bed is left a faded paper sheet
Of dead leaves stuck together by the heat--
A brook to none but who remember long.
This as it will be seen is other far
Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song.
We love the things we love for what they are.

Robert Frost

Do not be afraid of showing your affection.  Be warm and tender,
thoughtful and affectionate.  People are more helped by sympathy,
than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word
will give more pleasure than a present.

John Lubbock

George Washington Carver

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also--if you love them enough.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity--love.  And the
story of a love is not important--what is important is that one is capable
of love.  It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

Don't go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore

I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair. . . .
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are

Billy Joel

We came here because the earth is abundant and alive--a rich, rich field
of lessons for us to learn.  The lessons are not comfortable,
because if we weren't challenged, it would mean that we didn't need
to learn these lessons of the soul:  courage, patience, faith, learning to love,
embracing eternal life, and the most magical lesson of all:  It's not what I do,
it's knowing I am.  We are here to learn about love, to let others love us,
to discover that love is a living force--real, broad, encompassing.
I have also learned that universal love is there for me,
and will be there for me, if I'm open to it and believe in it.

Melody Beattie

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You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine;
it being the most delightful and natural employment
of the soul of humans.

Thomas Traherne

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We must evolve for all human conflict a method
which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One word frees us from all the weight
and pain of life:  That word is Love.

Sophocles

It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me.
It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time,
to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms,
often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion
but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline,
kindness, and laughter.  It is love, very ordinary, human love,
and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

Jane Rule