You Can Do No Great Things

8/14/2019 You Can Do No Great Things

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You can

do no

great

things --

only

small

things

with

great

love.

Mother

Teresa

What I must do is all

that concerns me, not

what the people think.

Ralph Waldo

Emerson

Civility costs nothingand buys everything.

Lady MaryWortley

Montagu

Vision without Action

is a daydream. Action

without Vision is a

nightmare.

Japanese

Proverb

Don't let what youcannot do interfere with

what you can do.

John Wooden

There are no hopeless

situations; There are

only men who have

grown hopeless about

them.

Clare Boothe

Luce,

Change is not merely

necessary to life, it is

life.

Alvin Toffler

In the province of the

mind, what one believes

to be true either is trueor becomes true.

John Lilly
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ALFRED ADLER:

We only regard those unions as real examples

of love and real marriages in which a fixed and

unalterable decision has been taken. If men or

women contemplate an escape, they do not

collect all their powers for the task. In none of

the serious and important tasks of life do wearrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and

be limited.
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ALFRED TENNYSON:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;

I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.

ALLAN K. CHALMERS:

The Grand essentials of happiness are:

something to do, something to love, and

something to hope for.

AMBROSE BIERCE:

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by

marriage.

AMY BLOOM:

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's

when two people have been looking at each

other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
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AMY TAN:

I am like a falling star who has finally foundher place next to another in a lovely

constellation, where we will sparkle in the

heavens forever.

ANAIS NIN:

Love never dies a natural death. It dies

because we don't know how to replenish its

source. It dies of blindness and errors and

betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies

of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

ANN LANDERS:

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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ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH:

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from

me.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY:

Love does not consist of gazing at each other,

but in looking together in the same direction.

ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN:

Love life and life will love you back. Love

people and they will love you back.

BARBARA DE ANGELIS:

Love is a choice you make from moment to

moment.

BARBARA DE ANGELIS:

Love is a choice you make from moment to

moment.
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BARBARA DE ANGELIS:

Love and kindness are never wasted. Theyalways make a difference. They bless the one

who receives them, and they bless you, the

giver.

BARBARA DE ANGELIS:

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will

have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll

resent the time and energy you give another

person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

BAYARD RUSTIN:

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds

preposterous -- a man who brutalizes people.

But you love him or you wouldn't be here.

You're going to Mississippi to create social

change -- and you love Eastland in your desire

to create conditions which will redeem his

children. Loving your enemy is manifest in
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putting your arms not around the man but

around the social situation, to take power from

those who misuse it -- at which point they can

become human too.

BAYARD TAYLOR:

I love thee, I love but thee

With a love that shall not dieTill the sun grows cold,

And the stars grow old...

BERTRAND RUSSELL:

The good life is inspired by love and guided by

knowledge.

BERTRAND RUSSELL:

Three passions have governed my life:The longings for love, the search for

knowledge,
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And unbearable pity for the suffering of

[humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.In the union of love I have seen

In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision

Of the heavens that saints and poets have

imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.I have wished to understand the hearts of

[people].

I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the

heavens,But always pity brought me back to earth;

Cries of pain reverberated in my heart

Of children in famine, of victims tortured

And of old people left helpless.

I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,

And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

adapted
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BERTRAND RUSSELL:

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensivein personal relations. People wish to be liked,

not be endured with patient resignation.

BIBLE:

Love is patient, love is kind.

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not

proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.

It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of

wrongs.Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with

the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always

hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

I Corinthians 13:4-8

BLAISE PASCAL:
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows

not of.

C.S. LEWIS:

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to

know that we are not alone.

CARL JUNG:

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and

where power predominates, there love is

lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

CARTER HEYWARD:

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love

is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at

heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or

being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective,a matter of making reciprocal and mutually

beneficial relation with one's friends and

enemies.


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This entry continued ...

CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE:

Tell me who admires and loves you,

And I will tell you who you are.

CHAUCER:

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 athing 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.

This entry continued ...DALE EVANS:

Every time we love, every time we give, it's

Christmas.
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DAVID FERENC:

We need not think alike to love alike.

DENIS WAITLEY:

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned,

earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the

spiritual experience of living every minute with

love, grace and gratitude.

DIANE ARBUS :

Love involves a peculiar unfathomablecombination of understanding and

misunderstanding.

DON BYAS:

You call it madness, but I call it love.

E.M. FORSTER:
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Only connect! That was the whole of her

sermon. Only connect the prose and the

passion, and both will be exalted, and human

love will be seen at its height. Live in

fragments no longer. Only connect...

ECCLESIASTES:

For everything there is a season,And a time for every matter under heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die;

A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is

planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal;

A time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh;

A time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to throw away stones, and a time to

gather stones together;

A time to embrace, And a time to refrain fromembracing;

A time to seek, and a time to lose;

A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
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A time to tear, and a time to sew;

A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate,

A time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY:

Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY:

I love humanity but I hate people.

ELBERT HUBBARD:

The love we give away is the only love we

keep.

ELIE WIESEL:

The opposite of love is not hate, it's

indifference.
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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.

(Oct. 1986)

ELIE WIESEL:

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than

love. Love risks degenerating into obsession,

friendship is never anything but sharing.

ELIZABETH BARRET BROWNING:

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING :

I love you not only for what you are, but for

what I am when I am with you. I love you not

only for what you have made of yourself, but


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for what you are making of me. I love you for

the part of me that you bring out.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX:

All love that has not friendship for its base,

Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

EMILY DICKINSON:

That Love is all there is,

Is all we know of Love.

EMILY DICKINSON:

Love -- is anterior to Life --

Posterior -- to Death --

Initial of Creation, and

The Exponent of Earth --

EMILY DICKINSON:


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Who has not found the heaven below

Will fail of it above.

God's residence is next to min,

His furniture is love.

EMMA GOLDMAN:

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man

has bought brains, but all the millions in theworld 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. Thuslove 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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ERICH FROMM:

Infantile love follows the principle: "I lovebecause 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."

ERNEST BECKER:

When we understand that man is the onlyanimal 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.

EURIPIDES:


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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

FELIX ADLER:

Love is the expansion of two natures in such

fashion that each include the other, each is

enriched by the other.

FRANCIS DAVID:

We need not think alike to love alike.

FRANKLIN P. JONES:

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is

what makes the ride worthwhile.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE:

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendshipthat makes unhappy marriages.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE:


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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all

arrogant presumptions.

GARY ZUKAV:

Eventually you will come to understand that

love heals everything, and love is all there is.

GEORG C. LICHTENBERG:

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

GEORGE JEAN NATHAN:

Love is an emotion experienced by the many

and enjoyed by the few.

GEORGE MACDONALD:

To be trusted is a greater compliment than tobe loved.

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There is only one happiness in life, to love and

be loved.

GEORGE SANTAYANA:

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not

his love, is deceived.

The Life of Reason, 1905-1906

GOETHE:

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.

H. L. MENCKEN:

To be in love is merely to be in a state of

perceptual anesthesia -- to mistake anordinary young man for a Greek god or an

ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Prejudices, 1919


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H.H. THE DALAI LAMA:

Responsibility does not only lie with the leadersof our countries or with those who have been

appointed or elected to do a particular job. It

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 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.


We can live without religion and meditation,

but we cannot survive without human

affection.
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HAN SUYIN [ELIZABETH COMBER]:

...love from one being to another can only bethat two solitudes come nearer, recognize and

protect and comfort each other.

b. 1917 Chinese writer and physician

HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN:

The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate

anyone, only to love. That is the only way out

of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom

you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then

you have no reason to hate them; you justforget.

Spiritual Dimensions of Psychology

HELEN KELLER:

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog,

when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness

shut you in and the great ship, tense and

anxious, groped her way toward the shore with


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plummet and sounding-line, and you waited

with beating heart for something to happen? I

was like that ship before my education began,

only I was without compass or sounding line,

and no way of knowing how near the harbor

was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless

cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on

me in that very hour.

HENRI NOUWEN:

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.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU:
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Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU:

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

HENRY MILLER:

The real enemy can always be met andconquered, or won over. Real antagonism is

based on love, a love which has not recognized

itself.

HENRY MILLER:

The one thing we can never get enough of is

love. And the one thing we can never give

enough of is love.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW:

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not

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HERMAN HESSE:

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

HERMANN HESSE:

You know quite well, deep within you, that

there is only a single magic, a single power, a

single salvation...and that is called loving.

Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it,

do not flee from it. It is your aversion that

hurts, nothing else.

HOBBES (OF CALVIN AND ...):

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart

so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can

be together all the time.

HOUSSAYE:

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who

you are.


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INGRID BERGMAN:

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature tostop speech when words become superfluous.

IRIS MURDOCK:

We can only learn to love by loving.

ISHA MCKENZIE-MAVINGA:

On reflection, one of the things I needed to

learn was to allow myself to be loved.

JAMES BALDWIN:

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely

because it is invested with so much of oneself.

It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries,

the possibility of torment.

Another Country, 1962


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JAMES D. BRYDEN:

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It

thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, saveone -- neglect.

JAMES THURBER AND E.B. WHITE:

Love is the strange bewilderment which

overtakes one person on account of another

person.

JANE AUSTEN:

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs ofdespised love.

JANE AUSTEN:

One does not love a place the less for having

suffered in it unless it has all been suffering,

nothing but suffering.


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JEAN BAPTISTE HENRY LACORDAIRE:

We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of

one sea, the flowers of one garden.

JEAN GOSS:

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.

JEANNE MOREAU:

Age does not protect you from love, but love to

some extent protects you from age.

JESSAMYN WEST:

A religious awakening which does not awaken

the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.


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The Quaker Reader, 1962

JIMI HENDRIX:

When the power of love overcomes the love of

power the world will know peace.

JOAN VINGE:

Indifference is the strongest force in the

universe. It makes everything it touches

meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a

chance against it.

The Snow Queen

JOHN LENNON:

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once

given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

JONATHAN SWIFT:

We have just enough religion to make us hate,

but not enough to make us love one another.


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KARL MENNINGER:

Love cures people -- both the ones who give itand the ones who receive it.

KATHARINE HEPBURN:

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really

suit each other. Perhaps they should live next

door and just visit now and then.

LILY TOMLIN:

If love is the answer, could you rephrase thequestion?

LISA HOFFMAN:

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very

important.

M. SCOTT PECK:


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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.

MADELEINE DE SCUDERY:

Love makes mutes of those who habituallyspeak most fluently.

MARC ESTRIN:

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing.

Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth

gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even

stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

MARCEL PROUST:

In reality, in love there is a permanent

suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual,

delays, but which can at any moment become


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what it would have become long earlier if one

had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.

MARGARET ANDERSON:

In real love you want the other person's good.

In romantic love you want the other person.

MARGARET GUENTHER:

[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.

MARK TWAIN:

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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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.

MARK TWAIN:

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken

about Eve in the beginning; it is better to liveoutside the Garden with her than inside it

without her.

Adam, in Adam's Diary

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.:

Love is the only force capable of transforming

an enemy into friend.


At the center of nonviolence stands the

principle of love.


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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional

love will have the final word in reality. This iswhy right, temporarily defeated, is stronger

than evil triumphant.


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.

MARY OLIVER:

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. Blackwater Woods


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MARY PARRISH:

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a momentcan be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a

clock.

MARY S. CALDERONE:

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.

MATTHEW ARNOLD:

Is it so small a thing

To have enjoy'd the sun,

To have lived light in the spring,

To have loved, to have thought, to have

done...

MITSUGI SAOTOME:


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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.

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI:

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first

skill of self-giving love.

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI:

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 inreality for it increases hatred.

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI:


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Where there is love there is life.

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI:

Whether humanity will consciously follow the

law of love, I do not know. But that need not

disturb me. The law will work just as the law of

gravitation works, whether we accept it or not.

The person who discovered the law of love wasa far greater scientist than any of our modern

scientists. Only our explorations have not gone

far enough and so it is not possible for

everyone to see all its workings.

MOLLEEN MATSUMURA:

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 burstsof intense heat from time to time), you must

carefully tend the fire. (2007)
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MOLLEEN MATSUMURA:

Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process

requiring continual attention. Loving well takeslaughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able

to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're

right." (1999)

MOLLY HASKELL:

But 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 waspreviously flat.

MOTHER TERESA:

The hunger for love is much more difficult to

remove than the hunger for bread.

MOTHER TERESA:
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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.

Money is not enough, money can be got, but

they need your hearts to love them. So, spread

your love everywhere you go.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE:

It is to the credit of human nature, that,

except where its selfishness is brought intoplay, 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.

from The Scarlet Letter

NORMAN LINDSAY:

The best love affairs are those we never had.

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, II:


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Do you love me because I'm beautiful,

or am I am beautiful because you love me?

OSCAR WILDE:

Each time that one loves is the only time one

has ever loved. Difference of object does not

alter singleness of passion. It merely

intensifies it. We can have but one greatexperience at best, and the secret of life is to

reproduce that experience as often as possible.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

OSCAR WILDE:

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like

a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The consciousness of loving and being loved

brings a warmth and richness to life that

nothing else can bring.

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The first duty of love is to listen.

PEARL BAILEY:

What the world really needs is more love and

less paperwork.

PEARL S. BUCK:

A good marriage is one which allows for

change and growth in the individuals and in

the way they express their love.

PEARL S. BUCK:

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.

PEARL S. BUCK:


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I love people. I love my family, my

children . . . but inside myself is a place where

I live all alone and that's where you renew

your springs that never dry up.

RAINER MARIA RILKE:

For one human being to love another: that is

perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; theultimate, the last test and proof, the work for

which all other work is but preparation.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON:

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to

serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

REINHOLD NIEBUHR:

Nothing worth doing is completed in ourlifetime,

Therefore, we are saved by hope.

Nothing true or beautiful or good makes


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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.

ROBERT FROST:

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know

where it's likely to go better.

Birches

ROBERT FULGHUM:

I believe that imagination is stronger than

knowledge -- myth is more potent than history

-- dreams are more powerful than facts --


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hope always triumphs over experience --

laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger

than death.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL:

Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud.

It is the Morning and the Evening Star.

It shines upon the cradle of the babe,and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.

It is the mother of Art,

inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher.

It is the air and light of every heart, builder of

every home,

kindler of every fire on every hearth.

It was the first to dream of immortality.

It fills the world with melody,

for Music is the voice of Love.

Love is the magician, the enchanter,

that changes worthless things to joy,and makes right royal kings and queens of

common clay.

It is the perfume of the wondrous flower -- the


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heart

and without that sacred passion, that divine

swoon,

we are less than beasts;

but with it, earth is heaven

and we are gods.

ROBERT HEINLEIN:

Love is a condition in which the happiness of

another person is essential to your own.

ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN:

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it

extinguishes the small and kindles the great.

ROSE WALKER:

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.


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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...


ROY CROFT:

I love you

Not only for what you are

But for what I am

When I am with you

Love (first stanza)

RUMI:

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-

minded.

Someone sober will worry about events goingbadly.

Let the lover be.
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RUMI:

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to

seek and find all the barriers within yourselfthat you have built against it.

RUMI:

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger

pull of what you really love.

RUMI:

Come out of the circle of time

And into the circle of love.

SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES:

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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SAMUEL BUTLER:

Perhaps; but is it not Tennyson who has said:"'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never

to have lost at all"? in The Way of All Flesh

SHARON WELCH:

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 forothers 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.

[The Feminist Ethic of Risk]


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SIMONE WEIL:

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness

simply means being able to say, "What are yougoing through?"

SIR ARTHUR PINERO:

Those who love deeply never grow old; they

may die of old age, but they die young.

SONG OF SOLOMON:

This is my beloved and this is my friend.

SPANISH PROVERB:

Where there is love, there is pain.

ST. AUGUSTINE:

Better to have loved and lost, than to have

never loved at all.


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SREN KIERKEGAARD:

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

THOMAS MERTON:

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.

TOM ROBBINS:

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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TRUMAN CAPOTE:

The true beloveds of this world are in theirlover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school

bells, a landscape, remembered conversations,

friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's

favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory,

yes, it being the earth and water of existence,

memory.

Other Voices, Other Rooms, 1948

UNKNOWN:

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

URSULA K. LEGUIN:

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 sit there like a stone. It has to

made like bread; remade all the time, made

new.

VICTOR FRANKL:

A man who becomes conscious of the

responsibility he bears toward a human being

who affectionately waits for him, or to anunfinished work, will never be able to throw

away his life. He knows the "why" for his

existence, and will be able to bear almost any

"how."

VICTOR HUGO:

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

W.H. MURRAY:

...the more the soul knows, the more she

loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

from the journal of his Himalayan expedition


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WASHINGTON IRVING:

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it willflow back and soften and purify the heart.

WILLA CATHER:

Where there is great love, there are always

miracles.

WILLA CATHER:

Old men are like that, you know. It makes

them feel important to think they are in lovewith somebody.

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD:

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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WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE :

We look forward to the time when the Power ofLove will replace the Love of Power. Then will

our world know the blessings of peace.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-

neglecting.


Love all, trust a few.


My bounty is as boundless as the sea,

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,

The more I have, for both are infinite.

"Romeo and Juliet"


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WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN:

The world is too dangerous for anything but

truth and too small for anything but love.

WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.:

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.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:

The little unremembered acts of kindness andlove are the best parts of a person's life.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART:

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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ZELDA FITZGERALD:

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets,how much a heart can hold.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON:

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding

place.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON:

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do

enough to satisfy themselves, though it maynot impress the neighbors as being very much.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it'slooking in the same direction. Antoine deSaint

True love begins when nothing is looked for inreturn. Antoine De Saint-Exupery


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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatredconfuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkenslife; love illumines it. - Dr. Martin Luther King

Jr. The best and most beautiful things in the world

cannot be seen or even touched. They must befelt with the heart. - Helen Keller

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To meltand be like a running brook that sings its melodyto the night. To wake at dawn with a wingedheart and give thanks for another day of loving.- Kahlil Gibran

Love is a force more formidable than any other.It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured,yet it is powerful enough to transform you in amoment, and offer you more joy than any

material possession could. - Barbara DeAngelis

Sometimes we make love with our eyes.Sometimes we make love with our hands.Sometimes we make love with our bodies.Always we make love with our hearts Love is acanvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by

imagination. - Voltaire

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift forthose who fear, too long for those who grieve, tooshort for those who rejoice, but for those wholove, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke


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Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds allnotion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning,all fear of an end. - Germaine De Stael

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were alwaysyours. And if they don't, they never were.

Kahlil Gibran

Love Quote from an Unknown Author:

Live well, laugh often, and love with all of your heart!

Unknown

St. Paul Quotation on Love:

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, is not pompous,it is not inflated, it is not rude,it does not seek its own interests,

it is not quick-tempered,it does not brood over injury,it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never fails.

St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4

Love Saying from an Unknown Author:

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

Sam Keen Love Quote:


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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see animperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love Quotation:

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but inlooking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Love Saying:

Absence diminishes small loves, and increases great ones, as the windblows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Zora Neale Hurston Love Quote:

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

Franklin P. Jones Love Quotation:

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the rideworthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones
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Henri De Montherlant Love Quote:

We like someone because. We love someone although.

Henri De Montherlant

Love Saying from an Unknown Author:

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch yourheart.

Unknown

Alfred Lord Tennyson Classic Love Quotation:

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Marianne Williamson Love Quote:

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

Robert A. Heinlein Love Saying:

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Robert A. Heinlein


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Henry David Thoreau Love Quotation:

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

2.Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, is not pompous,

It is not inflated, it is not rude,

It does not seek its own interests,

It is not quick-tempered,It does not brood over injury,

It does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never fails.

St. Paul, 1 Corinthians

3.If you seek Nirvana in the crotch ... and that's

all there is and it disappoints you, you become

angry and hostile ... We are angered because

we have asked of love what it cannot give.Judianne Denssen-Gerber

4.Gentlemen, to the lady without whom I shouldnever have survived to eighty, nor sixty, noryet thirty years. Her smile has been my lyric,

her understanding the rhythm of the stanza.

She has been the spring where from I have

drawn the words. She is the poem of my life.Oliver Wendell Holmes

5.Live well, laugh often, and love with all of your heart!Unknown Author

6.I can nail my left palmto the left-hand cross-piece bar

I can't do everything myself

I need a hand to nail my right

A help, a love, a you, a wife.Alan Dugan

7.Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in


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looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

8.To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

9.Trouble is part of your life, and if you dont share it, you dont give the person

who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Unknown

10.I sometimes think the gods have united human beings by some mysteriousprincipalOr is it as Plato has supposed, that souls originally one have been

divided, and each seeks the half it lost?

Lydia Maria Child

12.Before I met my husband, Id never fallen in love, though Id stepped in it a

few times

Rita Rudner

13.Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you

from age.Jeanne Moreau

14.Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is realIris Murdoch

15.Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!Aphra Behn

16.Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

In the beginning a flame, very pretty,Often hot and fierce,

But still only light and flickering.
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As love grows older,

Our hearts mature

And our love becomes as coals,Deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

17.I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my

heart.

Alice walker

18.Love is a wonderful thing. You never have to take it away from one person to

give it to another. There's always more than enough to go around."

Pamela de Roy

19.Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride

worthwhile.

Elizabeth Browning

20.Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely, willingly, and without expectation.We don't love to be loved; we love to love."

Leo Buscaglia

22.Love me without fearTrust me without questioning

Need me without demanding

Want me without restrictionsAccept me without change

Desire me without inhibitions

For a love so free....Will never fly away."

Dick Sutphen

23.Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to

your own."

Robert A. Heinlein

24.My bounty is as boundless as the sea,

My love as deep;

The more I give to theeThe more I have,

For both are infinite."

William Shakespeare

25.Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand."

Mother Teresa


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26.I love thee, I love but thee - with a love that shall not die till the sun grows

cold and the stars grow old."

Willam Shakespeare

27."Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit."

Khalil Gibra

28.I love you - those three words have my life in them."

Alexandrea to Nicholas III

29.To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

Samuel Butler

30.I love thee, I love but thee - with a love that shall not die till the sun grows

cold and the stars grow old."

Willam Shakespeare

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