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Let
no one who loves be
called unhappy.
Even love
unreturned has its rainbow.
J.M.
Barrie
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Love
is a force that connects us to every strand
of the universe, an unconditional state that
characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is
always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
Emily
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Someday,
after we have mastered the winds, the waves,
the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God
the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the
history of the world, humans will have discovered fire.
Pierre
Teilhard
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I
release any unpleasantness from the past and let it sail away.
I envision it going through the mists of my memories,
over the horizon, and out of sight. Love rushes in to fill
any empty places within my heart or mind. Now I am free
to do what is before me and free to do it better than ever
before. I am free to enrich my life and everything
concerning me.
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issue is not so much being loved but being loving, which leads to
the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.
Carol Pearson
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love for the sake of being loved is human,
But
to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse De Lamartine
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It
makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
how
hopeless the
outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great
the mistake. A sufficient
realization of love will dissolve
it all.
If only you could love enough
you would be the happiest
and most powerful being in the world.
Emmet
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to hear
pride. Caring is real faint--like a heartbeat. And pure
love--
why, some days it's so quiet,
you don't even know it's there.
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the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful,
the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only
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The
essence of love is kindness.
Robert
Louis Stevenson
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You
must love yourself before you love another.
By accepting yourself and fully being what you
are . . . your simple presence can make others happy.
Jane Roberts |
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In
our life there is a single color, as on
an artist's palette,
which provides the meaning
of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc
Chagall
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With love,
even the rocks will open.
Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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A five-word sentence that could change the world
tomorrow is "What would love do now?"
Neale Donald Walsch
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Every
day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
Leo Buscaglia
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Love
is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Morrie
Schwartz
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The
one thing we can never get enough of is love.
And the one
thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry
Miller
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In
the end these things matter most: How well did you love?
How fully did you love? How deeply did you learn to let go?
the Buddha
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Love
and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that
comes up.
If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's
faults and burdens.
If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts
of others. And it
is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden
us. It is love that will
make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice
and no suffering
will then seem too much.
Yes, I see only too clearly how bad people are. I wish I did
not see it so.
It is my own sins that give me such clarity.
Dorothy Day
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People talk about love as if it were something you
could give, like an armful of flowers.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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From
suffering I have learned this: that whoever is
sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she
embraces the very same love which wounded her.
Mechtild of Magdeburg |
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True universality does not consist in knowing much
but in loving much.
Jakob Burckhardt
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Love
has no claims. Love has no expectations. Most of us
were raised
to become prostitutes. We have the illusion that with good
behavior, good
grades, lots of awards, pretty clothes, nice smiles, we can buy
love. How
many ifs were you raised with? I love you if you make it
through high school.
I love you if you bring good grades home. Boy, would I love
you if I could
say my son is a doctor. You become a doctor or a lawyer, or
what your
parents never were able to become, with the illusion that they
will love you
more. Love can never be bought. There are people who
spend their lives
prostituting themselves, pleasing other people in the hope of
getting love.
They will shop the rest of their lives for it and they will never
find it.
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The union of
the family lies in love;
and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.
Robert H. Benson |
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Love
is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne
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True
love is much more than a feeling, a sensation, much more than
a magical interlude of emotional inebriation that overwhelms us
when
the full moon is only a tiny sliver. Love is a range of
behaviors, attitudes,
and abilities whose practice creates and maintains a state that we
call
love. It is a dimension in the form of a relationship that
satisfies, vivifies
and heals, but it is also the product of a complex effort.
In truth, love is
"the work of love" that is apparent only when we realize
that in addition
to being a gift, it is quite an undertaking.
Daphne Rose Kingma
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Find
yourself and express yourself in your own particular way.
Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you
create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of
art.
Don Miguel Ruiz |
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Our
job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not
they
are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's
business.
What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will
render
both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
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Love
involves a major responsibility. When I love someone, I
accept
this person into the inner circle of my most intimate life.
And I ask him
or her to let me into their own intimate circle. I must
respect, protect,
and support the people I love. I must respect their
individuality and
their needs and I must teach them to respect me.
I must be open to learning how to love others.
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Fully to surrender to love can be
terrifying. But it is the price life
asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.
Nathaniel
Branden
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The
world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with
our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our
friends
and relatives are the university in which we are meant
to learn what love and devotion truly are.
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When love and
skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin |
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Age
does not protect you from love. But love,
to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau |
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Do
you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is
the strongest
force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.
There are two
things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so
that it stops
hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or
we can ask God to
open up another route for that love to travel.
Corrie ten Boom
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It is
only through love that we can attain to communion
with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this
foundation: that we experience him in our lives as
Will-to-love.
Albert Schweitzer |
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Love
is that which is without condition, without limitation, and
without need.
Because it is
without condition, it requires nothing in order to be
expressed.
It asks nothing in return. It withdraws
nothing in retaliation. Because it is
without limitation, it places no limitation on another. It
knows no ending, but
goes on forever. It experiences no
boundary or barrier. Because it is
without
need, it seeks to take nothing not freely given.
It seeks to hold nothing not
wishing to be held. It seeks
to give nothing not joyously welcomed. And it is
free. Love is that which is free, for freedom is the
essence
of what God is, and love is God, expressed.
Neale Donald
Walsch
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Love
requires generosity. Love requires daring and
expansion. Above
all, love requires a dance of differing distances. There is
both the pas
de deux and the time for solo flight. The dance of love
contains both
turns. While cherishing our shared time together, I freely
release my
beloveds to pursue a separate path if that is their destiny.
Love
connects despite distance. I hold my beloveds tenderly in my
heart,
trusting that the distance that separates us also brings us
together,
gifting us with a stronger appreciation of our unique bond.
Freedom
is a requirement of self-love. I honor my beloveds with the
gift of freedom.
Julia Cameron
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