Love
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"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive." Orlando A. Battista
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." From a headstone in Ireland
"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love." Johnny Depp
"To find a person who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness." Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- )
"Children Learn What They Live. If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy. If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel guilty. If a child lives with impropriety, he learns to feel shame. If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient. If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate. He a child lives with fairness, he learns justice. If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith. If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world. With what is your child living?" Dorothy Law Neite
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." Orson Welles
"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do." Nan Fairbrother
"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive." Gilda Radner
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." Morrie Schwartz
"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty." Stephen King
"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence." William Blake
"Only those in tune with nature seem to pick up on the energy in wind. All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze - ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung, thoughts repressed, love uncherished, and a thousands galore of spiritual ether. Wind is an emotional rush because emotions are rushing by." Drew Sirtors
"When we harness the forces of harmony, joy and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease." Deepak Chopra [May 02, 2007
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“Darkness cannot overcome darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.” H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956) [May 19, 2006
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (1942-1970) [May 04, 2006
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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
“So when we consider our origins and our nature we discover that no one is born free from the need for love.” Tnzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, The Compassionate Life,
“We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.” Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
“There is often more wisdom to be found at the edges of life than in its middle. Life threatening illness may shuffle our values like a deck of cards. Sometimes a card we have been carrying on the bottom of our deck for most of our lives turns out to be the top card, the thing that really matters. Having watched people sort their cards and play their hands in the presence of death for many years, I would say that rarely is the top card perfection or possessions or even power. Most often the top card is love.” Rachel Remen
“Love--If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have.” Sir James M. Barrie
“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” Ken Keys [May 26, 2004
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“Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, It is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, And is concluded with the impossibility of separation.” Unknown
“Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.” Spanish Proverb [May 21, 2003
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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” Thomas Merton
“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” Richard Bach
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." Carl Jung
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” James Baldwin
“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.” Dinah Shore
“Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.” Nora Roberts
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.” Mark Twain
“No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.” Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.” O. A. Battista
“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.” Jean Paul Richter
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” Germain de Stael |
