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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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The greatest emotion is love. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest gift is your own life. The greatest pleasure is CHOCOLATE! The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is that there's always something new to learn. The greatest virtue is temperance. The greatest meditation is a peaceful mind. The greatest practice is to be kind. The greatest challenge is to let go. The greatest wisdom is to be in the NOW.
Never underestimate the difference YOU can make in the lives of others. Step forward, reach out and help. This week reach to someone that might need a lift.
Regardless of Sunshine or Rain, Be Thankful for another GREAT day…and treat Life as the ULTIMATE Gift.... Because IT IS :)”
Anyone who has given love will live on in another’s heart.
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Contribution #6704
Never underestimate the influence you have on others.
There is only one greatest treasure at this moment, this time, this life....... TO LOVE AND BE LOVED.
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Such two speeches cannot wait : I LOVE YOU and I AM SORRY. Elsewise, you may live with regrets to the end.
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Not everyone has the title to love or be loved. If you can love and be loved, be sure to love with all your soul.
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No matter how far he can go in his entire life. No matter how much he can achieve in his entire life. No matter how much burdens he can take in his entire life. FAMILY - - - IS HIS LAST REFUGE.
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Love means : You are not finding a suitable person. You be the suitable person made of love.
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Fortune is where the love is.
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It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.
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Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
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I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
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Passion
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Contribution #6543
I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol 2: 1920-1923
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Contribution #6530
Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
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I'd rather have high self-esteem and be called a "Diva" than have low-self esteem and become a "Doormat".
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I am the author of this quote.
Contribution #6470
Just because two people argue,
Doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue,
doesn't mean they do love each other.
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Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.
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The Springs of Contemplation: A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani
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Contribution #6358
If a person, whether your friend or not, fails in his attempt and your heart is wide enough to clap at his effort, only then you have a human heart in the real sense. Many people feel happy at others' failure, out of jealousy.
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"If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action."
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Some girls are extremely beautiful in nature.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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If You come from a place of Love Then You are Free and fear dispells itself into nothing If You live in the Moment – In the Present Then You don’t fear because You can let all the Good , The miracles in.
“The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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All Looks Like Lovel if You have the heart to see it.
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Evangeline"
Contribution #6270
Open hearts will open more hearts.
To be affectionately detached -- that is a power. That is a wisdom. That is a love greater than any emotional love, a love born of understanding.
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http://www.himalayanacademy.com/about/; http://www.facebook.com/KauaiHinduMonastery;
Gurudeva [ Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami --
Founder of Kauai's Hindu Monastery ]
Contribution #6239
God doesn't want you to do anything; He wants to perfect you !
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Contribution #6230
to walk in the forest with you, a coldness, warm in the depth of what we both know will come, with you i want to sit on the highest branch of the oak, my high, i want to feel your body, each our own, each others forever.
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Contribution #6214
You know someone loves you when you don't have to ask and wonder if they do.
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Teddy Bear Philosophy: Things My Teddy Bear Taught Me About Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness
Published by Andrews McMeel
, Kansas City, KS
, 1998
http://Amazon
Contribution #6211
The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
When you don’t feel loved enough you didn’t bring enough love to that moment. When you give love, you know you have love to give and can’t hold onto the idea that you are not loved.
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If you love someone who is not You, it’s not Love! The only thing that actually can be shared and joined with is Love
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Set your Self free! Focus on Love, on God.
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Spend all day with the fact that God Loves You.
You must be beautiful because God created You. How do you think you can comeinto the Awareness of being loved if you don't love yourself? How long will you reject God's love for You by insisting you are not lovable?
It’s all about Love. You won’t make it through Resurrection without Love. No Revelation without Love, let alone Ascension. These things never happen without Love. Walk the path of Love!
You know the way out. Just Be the Love. If anything other than love shows up, just let it go. Just keep letting it go.
The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44061.Thornton_Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Viewed on September 21, 2011
Contribution #6127
"You will be always be loved, less by those that you really Love."
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Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.
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The power of being human is to care!
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The beauty of life is also perhaps that implacable thought: one day we'll cross the people that hurt us and the ones that we hurt too, and it will be no more need of words ; a glimpse of the eye to eye will explain it all ; and then we will be free of any resentment and bad will. All that it will be left will be LOVE, as it always has been.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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Unknown
Contribution #6053
Love is a lost emotion, yet it guides all.
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My own words
Contribution #5975
Never be ashamed of love, only what it may make you do.
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My own words
Contribution #5961
Love is like space vast, frustrating and something that we all long to know.
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My own words
Contribution #5959
"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
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If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path
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Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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“We are plunged in slumber, we are children of the dust and ashes, until we love…but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.”
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“If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.”
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“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
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“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.”
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“Even the humblest mammal’s strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to ‘do unto others as yourself’ and ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’.”
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“…intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.”
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“If you have the right intentions, anything is possible…the person who has the greatest power is the one who has a perfect heart.”
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“Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself…As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called ‘I’; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.”
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“I believe that unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love will have the final word in Reality.”
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I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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“True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.”
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“If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won’t be able to enjoy its beauty and fragrance. Only when it blossoms by following its natural course, will the beauty and fragrance of a flower unfold.”
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“Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people’s minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.”
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“Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.”
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“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate- it’s apathy.”
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“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
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"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
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“Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.”
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“Love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it gives birth to visions and great poetry, remains among the sharpest impressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed through a long servitude, through its own self-hatred, through mockery, through great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties.”
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“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”
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“Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.”
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“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
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“I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine.”
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“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
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“Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.”
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“He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.”
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“There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.”
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“Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don’t think, ‘I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.’ Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.”
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“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so arts and morals, is the discovery of reality.”
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“We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life.”
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“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
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“Never pretend to a love you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”
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“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love…Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.”
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“My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.”
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“Let the scar of the heart be seen. For by their scars are known men who are in the way of love.”
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“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
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"When I look inside and see that I am nothing,
that is wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything,
that is love.
Between these two life does turn."
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Love rules without a sword and binds without a string.
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Contribution #4859
Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talents.Just common sense and love will do
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Contribution #4858
Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.
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Contribution #4836
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
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I have had this quote for a while and probably had found it on the internet.
Contribution #4825
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .
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I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
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The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief.
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The Art of Condolence: What to Write, Say and Do at a Time of Loss
by Leonard M. Zunin, MD and Hilary Stanton Zunin
Published by HarperCollins
, New York
, 1992
http://Amazon
Contribution #4621
When there are no spring blossoms to inspire, no summer flowers to smell, no autumn leaves to admire; then 'tis the season to appreciate yet another of His wonders. Man was a part of the garden, too.
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The author's personal musings.
Contribution #4612
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
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Only a blessed person who has tasted the Nectar of self Realisation and has also tasted the Bliss of Martyrdom, is in a position to authenticate that Bliss of Martyrdom is far superior to the Bliss of Self -Realisation.
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Eternal Glory of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj
Brig. Partap Singh Ji Jaspal (Retd.)
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Quotes by Baba Narinder Singh Ji"
http://www.babanandsinghsahib.org/quotes/martyrdom/
Viewed on November 24, 2010
Contribution #4587
when you hug some one sincerely u share three things; warmth, smiles and love. when you reject a hug; you reject these things. tell me what else brings greater joy than these,to beloved, the warmth from a dear one and a welcoming or friendly smile?
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common sense
Contribution #4583
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
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Blessed...considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it. Finally,...whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. ...as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory and virtue: ...giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; to virtue knowledge; to knowledge temperance; to temperance patience; to patience godliness; to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
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Psalms 41:1; Proverbs 29:7; Hebrews 10:24 ; Ephesians 4:32 ; 2 Peter 1:5-7; Philippians 4; 2 Peter 1:3 :8;
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Contribution #4505
Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly.
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Justice, like rain, must fall evenly and without bias. A raindrop does not decide if it shall fall on the rich or the poor, it simply does it's job in a quiet and steady manner. The minute we forget to be the raindrop and show mercy to some, and to others none we have failed in our one true vocation-- the vocation of loving our neighbors.
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Contribution #4395
I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.
The mystery of God touches us -- or does not -- in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.
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Coming Home to Myself
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Contribution #4372
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.
You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.
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The Heart of God
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Contribution #4357
The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of the earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.
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O FRIEND! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not thy hold. Treasure the companionship of the righteous and eschew all fellowship with the ungodly.
Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child's training wheels
To be laid aside
When you finally live
With veracity
And love.
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"The best way I know to prepare for our future is through our fervent faithfilled prayers today"
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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Winnie The Pooh
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Contribution #4201
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
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Why is it we don’t always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?
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"Love” is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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Each one of us here today will, at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question. "We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed?" It is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us, but we can still love them. We can love completely, without complete understanding.
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A River Runs Through It
Published in 1976
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Contribution #4067
It was the love of love,
the love that swallows up all else,
a grateful love,
a love of nature, of people,
of animals,
a love engendering
gentleness and goodness
that moved me
and that I saw in you.
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"You're nothing short of my everything."
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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Great Swan
by Lex Hixon
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Contribution #3960
Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.
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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
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I am the laughter of the new-born child
On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.
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Richard Watson Gilder
Contribution #3867
Love is the Root of Divine Providence. All virtue is the fruit of Love. Through Love we receive every good and perfect gift. God is Love.
No one can be always right and be a true Christian. It is a contradiction of terms. It comes from the failure to be real about oneself in the light of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. It is based on fear, and on the misuse of power. I imagined that I could somehow prevent my children from making mistakes. This is a temptation that many parents have to face, and it can be agonizing. After their early years, in which they must be taught the difference between right and wrong, we need to encourage them to choose to do the very best they can, to obey the deepest thing in their hearts, thoughts good and loving; but we must leave them really free to choose, without fear in ourselves. Perfect love drives out fear, and goes on whichever way they may choose.
Psychologists insist that children must feel love, that love is a primordial currency in human relations, this is easy to say. Unfelt love is the most dangerous hypocrisy. I would be inclined to aim lower, children & adults can sometimes be even more grateful for respect. This is perhaps the most despised, the most neglected & maligned of all qualities in the pursuit of happiness. It puts an undue strain on no-one. It must be applied indiscriminately, and since it is more a form of politeness, than an evaluation, a respect which is not deeply felt is practically indistinguishable from respect that is. Respect is the quality that makes the small voice of reason audible above the howling of the crowd. It is inherent in the rules of debate, it forces the speaker to listen, it may even enable the listener to speak.
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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War and Peace
Page Thoughts of Prince Andrew Bk XIII, Ch. 16
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Contribution #3836
An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.
The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.
My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.
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Come, Come Yet Again Come
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Contribution #3825
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love - that is the soul of genius.
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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Nelson Mandela
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Contribution #3807
Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.
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Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
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Contribution #3769
Everybody can be great--because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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Contribution #3764
We all have the power to give love. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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The Strength Of Love
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Contribution #3740
In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?
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Interview with Wild River Review
Contribution #3677
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
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A Bowl of Saki
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Contribution #3673
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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The Little Prince
Page chapter 21, page 87
Published by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
, 1943
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Contribution #3662
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
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If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"
There are no outsiders in God's love - we are all insiders with God!
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Robert V. Taylor
Contribution #3590
The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page Page 518
Published by Christian Science Publishing Society
, Boston, USA
, First published 1875, Copyright renewed 1934
http://www.spirituality.com
Contribution #3588
All their combined expertise could not protect them from their own pathology or from mortality, but the life they shared gave both of them the strength they needed to meet the unavoidable. At the same time, they gave one another what was, in the circumstances, a rare and bountiful measure of joy.
----This quote refers to Kay Jamison professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and Richard Wyatt, chief of neuropsychiatry for the National Institute of Mental Health. He overcame severe childhood dyslexia, and she lives with bipolar illness that at times has made her psychotic.
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The Seattle Times
Page 27
A compelling tale of love, grief, and mental illness
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Contribution #3585
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.
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Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
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Words to Live By
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Contribution #3467
Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each separate fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its reception.
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To be affectionately detached—that is a power. That is a wisdom. That is a love greater than any emotional love, a love born of understanding.
You don’t discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.
If you have love, you can live on bread crumbs. Without love, caviar will poison you.
One part of love is innocence
One part of love is guilt
One part the milk that in a sense
Is soured as soon as spilt
One part of love is sentiment
One part of love is lust
One part is the presentiment
Of our return to dust
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Weaveworld
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Contribution #3418
Love is substance, lust illusion. Only in the surge of passion do they mingle in confusion.
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Weaveworld
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Contribution #3417
The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.
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From the discourses of Rev. Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Contribution #3390
The day will comewhen, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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Love all, trust a few.
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Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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journal of Himalayan expedition
Contribution #2978
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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Still Life with Woodpecker
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Contribution #2974
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"
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Resistance to oppression is often based on a love that leads us to value ourselves, and leads us to hope for more than the established cultural system is willing to grant ... such love is far more energizing than guilt, duty, or self-sacrifice. Love for others leads us to accept accountability (in contrast to feeling guilt) and motivates our search for ways to end our complicity with structures of oppression. Solidarity does not require self-sacrifice, but an enlargement of the self to include community with others.
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The Feminist Ethic of Risk
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Contribution #2970
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
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Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you
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Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...
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Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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Birches
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Contribution #2963
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
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The first duty of love is to listen.
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It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
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The Scarlet Letter
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Contribution #2955
One of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.
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Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right."
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Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.
Never even consider spending the rest of your life with someone who isn't your best friend.
Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire.
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.
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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
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To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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Blackwater Woods
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Contribution #2943
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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[W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
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Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.
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Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
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All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.
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Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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Responsibility . . . lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.
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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1989
Contribution #2926
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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We need not think alike to love alike.
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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
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Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
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For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell -- he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
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Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
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Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
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If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
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The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Women get married expecting to change their husbands, while men get married expecting their wives will never change.
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My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its complex wonder, having the courage to live fully, to love wastefully and to be all that each of us can be and that it will express itself in our national life in more earth centered, justice enhancing and humane ways.
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.
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Ethics for the New Millenium
Page 234
Published by Riverhead Books
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, 2001
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Contribution #2802
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
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The Quaker Reader, 1962
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Contribution #2773
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
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Love your fellow as yourself.
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Tanakh - Torah
Leviticus
19:18
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Contribution #2676
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
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Bible
Luke
6:31
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Contribution #2671
Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their children, and their children’s children.
All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles – someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.
You can’t lead the people, if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people, if you don’t serve the people.
The best loving partnerships demand of us not great sacrifice but great expansion.
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Josh Mitteldorf
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Daily Inspiration 19 October 2008"
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Viewed on November 3, 2008
Contribution #2509
If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
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Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
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O Magazine
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Contribution #2317
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
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How to Live with Another Person
Published in 1974
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Contribution #2316
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.
Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky--the religion of this world--the religion of the family--the love of husband for wife, of wife for husband--the love of all for children. So that now the real religion is: Let us live for each other; let us live for this world without regard for the past and without fear for the future. Let us use our faculties and our powers for the benefit of ourselves and others, knowing that if there be another world, the same philosophy that gives us joy here will make us happy there.
Love is the only thing that will pay ten per cent to borrower and lender both.
The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.
Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. . . . You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
True love is in the image of God (by God I simply mean the fundamental cause of everything. It brings us into existence and, within the limits of its might, supports us in our quest for fulfillment). It is a desire to nurture, not to capture.
Generally, in a loving environment, human beings show humanity as naturally as fruit trees give fruit in the summer. Love is to these beings as sunshine is to these trees. It helps them grow into what they are meant to grow into (unless their nature is flawed from the start, which is an exception to the rule): beautiful and bountiful creations, as opposed to ugly and puny aberrations.
How much can we collectively be civilized – that is, mutually respectful and helpful, in the knowledge that this high goal can unite our wills toward a common good of colossal proportions? In other words, what is the ceiling of our possible civilization, which implies responsibility and solidarity, an elevation of life to love? Nobody knows the limit, so none should be set but the sky!
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Laurent Grenier
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Contribution #2165
Sages forever strive to be at one with truth. Their ideal – which they pursue earnestly but never achieve to perfection – is to grow into supreme human beings whose knowledge and behavior coincide with the nature of things and their earthly mission: with life and love.
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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I John
4:7-8
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Contribution #2108
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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I John
4:12
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Contribution #2105
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land--the boundaries of countries are not the limitations of his sympathies. Caring nothing for race, or color, he loves those who speak other languages and worship other gods. Between him and those who suffer, there is no impassable gulf. He salutes the world, and extends the hand of friendship to the human race. He does not bow before a provincial and patriotic god--one who protects his tribe or nation, and abhores the rest of mankind.
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What's God Got to Do with It?
by Editor: Tim Page
Page 27
Published by Steerforth Press
, Hanover, New Hampshire
, 2005
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Contribution #2072
That best portion of a good man's life:
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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John
13:35
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Contribution #1901
The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be.
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Contribution #1878
Work is love made visible.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
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Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country--of this country--is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause and a purpose larger than ourselves. And that cause is to make liberty worth having, to make the pursuit of happiness deeper than the quest for personal pleasure, and to leave a legacy of progress and possibility.
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The True Patriot
Page 39-40
Published by True Patriot Network
, Seattle, USA
, 2007
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Contribution #1660
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet"; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
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Romans
12: 8-10
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Contribution #1652
One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.
One who obeys the will of Heaven will practice universal love.
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Love people. Use things. Not vice-versa.
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Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings,
man will not find peace
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1453
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.
The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.
For never does hatred cease by hatred here below; hatred ceases by love; this is an eternal law.
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The Dhammapada
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Contribution #1228
The
love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the
border?
Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
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Practice meditation sincerely and you will realize His infinite grace. God wants sincerity, truthfulness and love. Outward verbal effusions do not touch Him.
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God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.
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The unloving belong only to themselves, but the loving
belong to others to their very bones.
When it is all over, I want to say: All my life I was a
bride married to amazement, I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my
arms.
All things…call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to
listen, they want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of
being…. But we can give it to them only through the love that
listens.
Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Harmony is
pure love, for love is a concerto.
He
who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
What a man takes in by contemplation,
that he pours out in love.
The most authentic thing about us is
our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be
greater than our suffering.
If
you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If
you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
We are each other's business; we are each other's harvest; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
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Arthur James Balfour, Conservative politician and statesman, 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930
Viewed on April 14, 2008
Contribution #697
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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Peter Usinov
Viewed on April 14, 2008
Contribution #696
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Viewed on April 13, 2008
Contribution #660
Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.
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When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
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14th Dalai Lama
Viewed on April 13, 2006
Contribution #651
In that process of coming to know that which we name as divine, the God who is love is slowly transformed into the love that is God. Let me repeat that...We breathe love in, and we breathe love out. It is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. It is never exhausted, always expanding. When I try to describe this reality, words fail me; so I simply utter the name God. That name, however, is no longer for me the name of a being...
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A New Christianity for a New World
by John Shelby Spong
Page page 71
Published by Harper Collins
, San Francisco
, 2001
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Contribution #623
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.
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Don Cupitt
Viewed on April 13, 2008
Contribution #617
If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.
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Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya
by Bhikkhu Bodhi and Nyanaponika Bodhi
Page 36
Published by Altamira Press
, 1999
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Contribution #607
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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King, Martin Luther, Jr.
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Contribution #604
If God is Love and Truth, then in truth and love we shall find Him. Whether we are His creation or He is ours does not change the nature of the quest.
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The Dark Side
by Valerie Tarico
Page 257
Published in 2006
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Contribution #541
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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Romans
13:9
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Contribution #539
Children also need opportunities to practice being less than perfect. They can afford to be ill tempered with us because it is our love that is most constant. This is the essence of unconditional love.... Our steadfast love provides a safe haven.
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Cathy Rinder Tempelson
Viewed on April 11, 2008
Contribution #509
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.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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St. Theresa of Lisieux
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #475
And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Viewed on April 1, 2008
Contribution #408
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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William Ellery Channing
Viewed on April 9, 2008
Contribution #391
Compassion begins at home, and it is not how much we do but how much love we put in that action. Do not think that love has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
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Dalai Lama
Viewed on April 8, 2008
Contribution #340
With kindness, with love and compassion, with this feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
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Tenzin Gyatso - 14th Dalai Lama
Viewed on April 9, 2008
Contribution #339
"Lots of people talk to animals," said Pooh.
"Not that many listen though."
"That's the problem."
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Benjamin Hoff
Contribution #325
I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life—the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.
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Minuchin Salvador
Viewed on April 9, 2008
Contribution #315
Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance.
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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Viewed on March 1, 2008
Contribution #42
Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
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I John
3:18
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Contribution #32
What does love look like in a person?
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