One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Sophocles Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love pain suffering despair depression love relationships friendships support

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: happiness love joy agape love acceptance relationships marriage friendships meaning fulfillment

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: attitude happiness hate love worry stress simplicity love kindness selflessness golden rule

For love does not seek a joy that follows from its effect: it's joy is in the effect itself, which is the good of the beloved. Consequently, if my love be pure I do not even have to seek for myself the satisfaction of loving. Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved.
Thomas Merton Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love joy relationships marriage agape love

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship love sympathy compassion love

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane Austen Mansfield Park
Categories: love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
Categories: love

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Categories: love

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
Categories: love

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Categories: love

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
Categories: love

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Categories: love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott How to Live with Another Person, 1974
Categories: love

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald Born for Love: Reflections on Loving
Categories: love

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made; remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. LeGuin The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: love

It is a heavenly love that is free from jealousy, rich and never harmful to the spirit. It is a deep affinity that bathes the soul in contentment; a deep hunger for affection which, when satisfied, fills the soul with bounty; a tenderness that creates hope without agitating the soul, changing earth to paradise and life to a sweet and beautiful dream.
Kahlil Gibran The Broken Wings
Categories: love

During my youth, Love will be my teacher; in middle age, my help; and in old age, my delight.
Kahlil Gibran The Broken Wings
Categories: love

You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.
Thich Nhat Hanh The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning and his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
Categories: love

The salvation of man is through love and in love.
Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
Categories: love

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
Thomas a' Kempis The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
Emmet Fox Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Categories: love

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
Categories: love

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
Henry Bromel Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Categories: love

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Categories: love

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau Journal, July 25, 1839
Categories: love

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
Categories: love

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Hugh Elliott Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
Categories: love

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
Categories: love

We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch O Magazine, February 2004
Categories: love

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Categories: love

'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
J. Jacques Questionable Content webcomic, #678, 08-02-06
Categories: love

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
Categories: love

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis
Categories: love

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong O Magazine, February 2004
Categories: love

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
Euripides Medea, 431 B.C.
Categories: love

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Categories: love

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
Categories: love

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox O Magazine, February 2004
Categories: love

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: love happiness joy

Go in love, for that is what you are.
Diane V. Ciricione A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles
Categories: love soul

You know quite well deeply within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving.
Herman Hesse Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love power

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand 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.
Leo Tolstoy The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love life

Love always begins with the person closest to you. It does not begin with nameless and faceless people. It begins with those you sweat and struggle with--those who frequently disagree with you and put you down. That is why it is so hard. It is easier to love the world than your closest relative. The world is general. Your relative is specific. The world is vague. Your relative has character...Whom will you love today? ... It won't be easy. Love is never an option.
Jim Smoke Every Single Day
Categories: love relationships

What is wrong with our world is that love is in short supply.
Christopher Bryant Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love friendship

Only love is real

Carole King You've Got a Friend: Poetic Selections from the Songs of Carole King edited by Susan Polis Schutz
Categories: love reality

Love is a product of habit.
Lucretius Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love relationships

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
Iris Murdoch The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love reality

Not to love is not to live, or it is to live a living death. The life that goes out in love to all is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and in power.
Ralph Waldo Trine Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love fulfillment

He does much who loves much.
Thomas a Kempis The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action love

Only love makes me remember, it alone stirs my heart.
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leornardo da Vinci: A Biography
Categories: love passion emotion

Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age love relationships friendships

Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
Robert Bridges The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: love being loved loving

The ability to love oneself, combined with the ability to love life, fully accepting that it won't last forever, enables one to improve the quality of life.
Bernie S. Siegel Love, Medicine and Miracles : Lessons Learned About Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience With Exceptional Patients
Categories: life love joy happiness

For one human 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.
Rainer Maria Rilke Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love relationships marriage

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not towards one "object" of love.
Eric Fromm Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love attitude relationships

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
Categories: friendship relationship love

Love is creation raised to a higher degree.
Toyohiko Kagawa The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love creation creativity

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love creation reconciliation

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: character choice love

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
Kahlil Gibran The Broken Wings
Categories: love freedom spirit

Therefore, when I say that "I love," it is not I who love, but in reality Love who acts through me. Love is not so much something I do as something that I am. Love is not a doing but a state of being--a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts.
Robert A. Johnson Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love power relationships

It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same as having the ability to love.
Leo Buscaglia Born for Love
Categories: love romance relationships

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love relationships marriage

To love is to discover and complete one's self and someone other than oneself.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love marriage relationships

Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near.
Isaiah 57:19 Holy Bible
Categories: peace love brotherhood

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch, and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love relationships marriage

Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us
Dean Ornish In the Shadows of the Net
Categories: love intimacy health

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships love

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Categories: friendship love community

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship love relationships

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: love purpose fulfillment

Without good friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friends love relationships

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: life living love

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: loneliness friendship love

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: love friendship action

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship love relationships

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Willa Cather Simple Abundance
Categories: love miracles change vision

...Love is that divinity who creates peace among men, repose and sleep in sadness. Love divests us of all alienation from each other, and fills our vacant hearts with overflowing sympathy...
Plato The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love peace relationships compassion

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. That is,... all that is beautiful and sublime and the world takes part in the beauty of what one loves, and this unexpected glimpse of happiness immediately fills the eyes with tears. This is how love of the beautiful and love give each other life.
Stendhal The Spirit of Loving
Categories: beauty art nature love happiness

And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
Meister Eckhart The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love relationships marriage parenting

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefeller 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Categories: love transformation understanding power

Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.
John Welwood The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love growth change self-improvement

...beauty has its own heavenly language, loftier than the voices of tongues and lips. It is a timeless language, common to all humanity, a calm lake that attracts the singing rivulets to its depth and makes them silent.
Only our spirits can understand beauty, or live and grow with it. It puzzles our minds; we are unable to describe it in words; it is a sensation that our eyes cannot see, derived from both the one who observes and the one who is looked upon. Real beauty is a ray which emanates from the holy of holies of the spirit, and illuminates the body, as life comes from the depths of the earth and gives color and scent to a flower.
Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
Kahlil Gibran The Broken Wings
Categories: beauty love relationships marriage

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Portable Coleridge
Categories: friendship relationship security love

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Jesus Christ, quoting scripture (Leviticus 19:18) Matthew 19:19
Categories: love relationships community society

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
Leo Buscaglia Born for Love
Categories: love relationships marriage divorce

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: loneliness friendship relationships love

But the mysterious and unsought uprising of love is the experience of complete relationship with another, transforming our vision not only of the beloved but of the whole world.
Alan Watts The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love relationship marriage attitude

The choice between love and fear is made every moment in our hearts and minds. That is where the peace process begins. Without peace within, peace in the world is an empty wish. Like love, peace is extended. It cannot be brought from the world to the heart. It must be brought from each heart to another, and thus to all mankind.
Paul Ferrini The 12 Steps of Forgiveness
Categories: love fear peace afraid

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: actions love kindness compassion

Your heart is not living until it has experienced pain... The pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.
Hazrat Inayat Khan Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love relationships marriage compromise

All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
Morihei Ueshiba The Art of Peace: Teachings of the Founder of Aikido
Categories: life love joy happiness gratitude

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love risk trust courage

There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart.
Elizabeth J. Canham "Clutch Clinic" by Elizabeth J. Canham, Weavings, March/April 1997
Categories: self-love acceptance growth self-awareness

Human blood is all of a color.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: tolerance brotherly love racism war

Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it.
Katherine Anne Porter Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love relationships marriage growth

Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love relationships intimacy marriage

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present.
M. Scott Peck Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love relationships marriage parenting

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: love kindness compassion empathy

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.
Erich Fromm The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love relationships intimacy individuality

For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, to work for which all other work is merely preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love marriage parenting relationships

To be known and loved is a transforming experience. It calls us from skepticism to belief, from caution to action, from despair to hope.
Larry J. Peacock "Echoes of Love" by Larry J. Peacock, The Upper Room Disciplines 1994
Categories: love transformation growth meaning

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
M. Somerset Maugham Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love meaning purpose fulfillment

The way living systems return to balance is by continually expanding to encompass more of whole. While fear may cause us to constrict, separate to or withdraw, this is not path the healing and balance. It is courage and love that guide us to step out and meet and befriend what we fear, to take it inside of ourselves, and learn from it in order to transform and heal ourselves.
Joel Levey and Michelle Levey Living in Balance: A Dynamic Approach for Creating Harmony & Wholeness in a Chaotic World
Categories: balance healing courage love

Fear is useless

Martin Sheen "Public Lives, Private Prayers," Spirituality and Health, Summer 2001.
Categories: fear faith belief love

... love is not just a feeling, a warm affection for another person, but the way in which that feeling is expressed in will and in action. Love is a regard for the others well-being so strong that it will set its own interests aside for the sake of that well-being, "a self-determination to do good, good only, and always the highest good possible." (Robert Law) This is love, and God is this love, and it is in Jesus that this God is made known.
David Rensberger "God is love" by David Rensberger, Weavings, January/February 1998.
Categories: love relationships marriage parenting

The heart and soul that loves peace and wants others to be peaceful will never miss the mark of excellence.
Joyce Sequichie Hifler A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: peace relationships excellence love

Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems." Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Norman Vincent Peale Norman Vincent Peale: An Inspiring Collection of Three Complete Books: Have a Great Day, Positive Imaging, Treasury of Joy and Enthusiasm
Categories: love relationships difficult people

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationship virtue love

In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship action love relationships

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship love relationships sharing

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: mistake friendship love relationships

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
Emily Hilburn Sell The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love agape knowledge openness

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all--friends?
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships love life

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude friendship love relationship

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships love appreciation

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: love agape relationship friendship

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship love emotion relationships

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness hope love balance

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationship love virtue

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship words actions love

No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven.
Ruth Sheppard Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: forgiveness love change friendship

We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship love relationship work

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationship love patience

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: dreams goals love life

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: laughter friendship relationships love

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friends relationships love behavior

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Rumi The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: beauty nature actions love

Love all, trust a few;
Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: love trust integrity friendship relationship

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by
Don Miguel Ruiz The Four Agreement : A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom a Toltec Wisdom Book
Categories: perfectionism self-love self-nurture self-abuse judgementalism

Love is... Not a result; it is a cause... People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers... Love is a force in you that enables you to give other things... It is a power like money, or steam, or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love power transformation giving sharing

They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare (The Two Gentlemen from Verona) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: love friendship relationships agape action

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: love friendship relationships business understanding

Love is expressed by embodying love in our actions.
Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Categories: love actions parenting relationships marriage

Love is not what we become but who we already are.
Stephen Levine The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love character personality soul spirituality

If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.
Thich Nhat Hanh The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love actions motives understanding relationships

Love is... not a result; it is a cause...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love power giving sharing relationships

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast,
Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so.'
Lord Byron The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: advise friendship relationships love communication

Love is the free exercise of choice.
M. Scott Peck Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love choice relationships marriage commitment

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
Dale Dauten His nationally syndicated column which appeared in the 4/16/98 Arizona Republic.
Categories: gratitude appreciation love friendship wisdom

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow 1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Categories: love marriage parenting friendships relationships

The adult looks to deed, the child to love.
Hindustani proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: love action kindness perspective motive

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship trust friend relationship love

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Spirit of Loving
Categories: wisdom love elevation virtues renewal

If you open your heart, love opens your mind.
Charles John Quarto, Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro "Open your heart" performed by Lowen & Navarro on their album Broken Moon.
Categories: love mind thought change transformation

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship trust relationship love action

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone--but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: trust love joy happiness relationships friendship

Ordinary life, our earthly existence, is often dull. Romance is exciting. Our moments of romance are those when a little bit of heaven seems, thank God, to impinge, to intrude upon our daily lives. I learn for such moments. It is because I yearn for them so much that I generally feel this earth is not my home. The yearning is particularly intense when I am bored for any length of time. I want to go home.
Heaven is the home of God. For years I have known that my only real romance is with God. I want to be with God. I want to be in his or her arms where I belong, and I hope I shall be when I die. But I am not ready to go home yet, and God does not come to me often. Certainly never on demand. She has Her own schedule. Her timing is not my timing, and I must content myself with that. I am not so good at being content, however, that I do not look forward to substitutes, even if they be but shadows of the real thing...
M. Scott Peck In Search of Stones
Categories: romance mystical ecstasy mysticism love

In order to develop love -- universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it -- one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
Chogyam Trungpa The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love life mystery personal growth

Love means to love that which is unloveable,

G.K. Chesterton A Grateful Heart
Categories: love virtue forgiveness mistakes faith

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Harvey Mackay The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meaning life success love dreams

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness compassion kindness love sharing

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: forgiveness relationships friendship love grudges

When we travel life's roads with those we love, the point of destination is always secondary to the quality of the journey.
Mary Prince A Woman's Journey... With God by Mary Prince
Categories: love relationships family marriage friendship

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is of little love.
Erich Fromm Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love faith relationships marriage parenting

If our spirituality, no matter how disciplined, lofty and inspiring, is making us less warmly human, more detached, suspicious of our human 'feelings, emotions, and passions,' then something has gone seriously wrong.
Flora Slosson Wuellner 'Reach out your hand, and put it in my side' Flora Slosson Wuellner, Weavings, September/October 1998
Categories: spirituality love agape service emotions

Do the things
You believe in
In the name of love
And know that
You aren't alone
We all have doubts and fears.
Carole King You've Got a Friend: Poetic Selections from the Songs of Carole King
Categories: passion service love courage fear

We must have infinite faith in each other.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: trust friendship love faith authenticity

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendships relationships marriage love agape

Open your heart

Carole King You've Got a Friend : Poetic Selections from the Songs of Carole King
Categories: sharing ministry service authenticity love

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second something to reverence.
George Eliot Cassell Companion to Quotations
Categories: meaning purpose fulfillment faith love

What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character integrity honesty authenticity love

The Art of Peace begins with you...Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all you encounter.
Morihei Ueshiba The Art of Peace
Categories: peace relationships friendship love tranquility

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: friendship love relationship faults agape

I define love thus: the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love sacrifice relationships marriage parenting

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships love sharing giving

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are...your simple presence can make others happy.
Jane Roberts Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love self-acceptance self-esteem attitude personality

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Epicetus Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: perceptions expectations relationships friendship love

I am grateful for and bless the act of creation and all my loving creators. To be alive is the greatest gift one can receive. Life, with its mystery, joy, love, pain, difficulties, and opportunities. I bless them all as I bless the wonder of our existence and I bless all who use the gift of life to increase the quality of love and healing we all require to survive. Peace.
Bernie Siegel, MD A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles
Categories: gratitude blessing life love healing

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: praise speech relationships love friendship

The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors reflecting their beliefs. So relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth... if we look honestly at our relationships we can see so much about how we have created them.
Shakti Gawain Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: relationships marriage love friendship personal growth

Things past redress are now with me past care.
William Shakespeare (King Richard II) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: grudges forgiveness mistakes friendship relationships love

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves in the love with which we are loved eternally. He who is able to love himself is able to love others also; he who has learned to overcome self-contempt has overcome his contempt for others.
Paul Tillich The Education of the Heart: Readings and Sources from Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and the Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
Categories: self-love selfishness self-esteem loving relationships marriage

Love is the power within us that affirms and values another human being as he or she is. Human love affirms that person who is actually there, rather than the ideal we would like him or her to be or the projection that flows from our minds. Love is the inner god who opens our blind eyes to the beauty, value, and quality of the other person. Love causes us to value the other person as a total, individual self, and this means that we accept the negative side as well as the positive, the imperfections as well as the admirable qualities. When one truly loves the human being rather than the projection, one loves the shadow just as one loves the rest. One accepts the other person's totality.
Robert A. Johnson Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: agape love marriage relationships friendships parenting

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
Paul Tillich The Education of the Heart: Readings and Sources from Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and the Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
Categories: meanness relationships marriage abuse self-love hate

If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
John Steinbeck Body, Mind and Spirit: Daily Inspiration for Healing and Wholeness
Categories: self-acceptance self-esteem self-love angry rage meanness

Fair words never hurt the tongue.
George Chapman Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: speech words kindness relationships friendship love

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness sharing joy friendship love relationships attitude

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships authenticity love speech truth

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: giving sharing relationships friendship love volunteer

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: life love creativity standards expectations wellness

A friend is a person who knows all about you--and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship love agape acceptance relationships tolerance

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: fighting arguments love friendship anger relationships

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: argument peace speech friendship love relationships

No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.
John Donne Body, Mind, and Spirit: Daily Meditations
Categories: interdependence relationships love friendship society responsibility

Why do you take by force that which you could obtain by love?
Powhatan A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: love strength character integrity kindness gentleness

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love forgiveness forgiving relationships marriage friendships

How can we communicate love? I think three things are involved: We must reach out to a person, make contact. We must listen with the heart, be sensitive to the other's needs. We must respond in a language that the person can understand. Many of us to all the talking. We must learn to listen and keep on listening.
Princess Pale Moon Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: communication listening relationships marriage parenting love

A human being is part of the whole called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts, and feelings as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few people nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein Living in Balance: A Dynamic Approach for Creating Harmony & Wholeness in a Chaotic World
Categories: mindfulness balance awareness love relationship compassion

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: perspective love friendship relationship understanding acceptance

Man is never nearer the Divine than in his compassionate moments.
Joseph H. Hertz "Early Light", InTouch, October 1998.
Categories: compassion service kindness forgiveness empathy love

Where love reigns there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other.
Carl Gustav Jung The Spirit of Loving compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell
Categories: love power trip relationships marriage friendships

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: faith love belief hope opportunity action

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: thought aging youth beauty love nature

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
Paul Tillich Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth
Categories: love forgiveness relationships parenting marriage friendship

Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: heart thought character love integrity success

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.
Tom Hannah Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: tolerance differences love friendship relationships respect

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.
Emma Goldman Power Quotes
Categories: relationships friendships love marriage communication tolerance

Love is a verb.
Clare Boothe Luce Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: love action relationships friendships giving sharing

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Dr. Joyce Brothers Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: joy enjoyment love acceptance happiness attitude choice

Marriage is a relationship. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
Categories: marriage love commitment relationships selfishness selflessness

If I'm such a legend, why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships love kindness community acceptance

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or ablities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn Words for All Occasions
Categories: kindness love friendship sharing talent life

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships marriage advice help agape love

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet--each of us in our own way.
Bernie Siegel, MD Handbook for the Soul
Categories: love meaning life purpose ministry service

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, from The Maid's Tragedy The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: love friendship pain hurt betrayal relationships

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love energy spirituality growth change self-improvement

Every true deed is a loving deed. All true deeds rise from contact with a beloved thing and flow into universe. Any true deed brings, out of lived unity, unity into the world. Unity is not a property of the world, but its task. To form unity out of the world is our never-ending work.
Martin Buber The Spirit of Loving
Categories: truth honesty love unity nature society

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: duty love purpose meaning fulfillment community

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. If the individual is not sensitive, how can his love be sentient? If he is not profound, how can his love be deep? As one is, so is his love.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love relationships soul character marriage divorce

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
Dr. Karl Menninger Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love despair depression sadness relationships marriage friendships

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work selfishness sharing action love justice character

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: kindness friendship relationships love volunteer giving sharing

May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend.
Traditional Irish blessing A Grateful Heart
Categories: light warmth relationships sharing friendships love giving

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary Roberts Rinehart The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: kindness relationships love friendships marriage parenting happiness joy

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
Red Cloud A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: priorities materialism money peace love balance success

We live by admiration, hope and love.
William Wordsworth Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: love agape admiration hope friendship relationships character

...while every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
Erich Fromm The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love relationships marriage marry parenting child-rearing

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: life appreciation gratitude compliment relationships friendship love

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships love limitations handicaps disability disabilities

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: love family parents children action home relationships

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: grace mercy love friendship relationship kindness agape

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
Dr. Paul Tournier Words for All Occasions
Categories: acceptance tolerance relationships racism judgementalism agape love

What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother Teresa The Power Principle
Categories: ability cooperation service teamwork team work love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: love marriage vanity beauty conceit divorce relationships

Ultimately love is everything.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
Categories: love relationships self-control self-discipline self-worth self-esteem parenting

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: friendship relationships love life difficulties challenges circumstances

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
P. D. Ouspensky The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love creation creativity creative purpose fulfillment meaning

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: kindness character self-acceptance judgementalism relationships friendships love

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honours, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honourable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
Plato The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love character integrity principles values life guidance

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Rabbi Harold Kushner The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: service ministry caring sharing volunteerism love relationships

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you what love is and what it is not. No authority knows and he who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding.
Krishnamurti The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love action life meaning understanding relationships marriage friendship

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: speech truth integrity honesty authenticity friendship relationships love

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
Bernie Siegel Handbook for the Soul
Categories: love choice attitude relationships friendships happiness happy change

Sometimes we are to guard our heart...protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart...let certain qualities out and release them to others.
Charles Swindoll The Quest for Character
Categories: giving sharing caution risk heart love trust relationships

The main fact of life for me is love or its absence. Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
R.D. Laing Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: life meaning purpose fulfillment love relationships friendships marriage

Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: words action speech meaning understanding relationships friendship love

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
Bessie Head Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: attitude love openness availability relationships friendships marriage parenting

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
Elbert Hubbard Light from Many Lamps
Categories: wisdom love laughter work friendship relationships wellness balance

Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.
Chinese proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: kindness relationships words speech hurt pain love gentleness

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: love loving sharing giving marriage parenting children sacrifice

Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland Franklin Seasons Planner, September 8, 1993
Categories: joy happiness friendship enjoyment sharing share love relationships marriage

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: truth honesty integrity relationship friendship love character authenticity

He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: criticism sarcasm kindness community relationships love friendship marriage

Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, carress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel it the end of the day.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: attitude joy kindness smile communication listening love emotions feelings

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: joy happiness giving sharing selfishness selflessness friendship love relationships

..life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve. Live is always movement, always change, always unforeseen circumstances. There will always be something to grab your attention...Let's just acknowledge that as far as real life is concerned, we are only one step away from dealing with dysfunction.
...Procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: procrastination busyness fulfillment meaning joy enjoyment love life stress opportunity

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: joy happy emotions spirituality simplicity thought courage daring bravery love

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Charles de Montesquieu The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happy joy kindness sharing relationships love loving friendship volunteerism character

What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love?
Barbara Sher Live the Life You Love
Categories: love gifts talents ability joy purpose meaning vocation happiness fulfillment

When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
Blaine Lee The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Categories: relationships friendships trust marriage parenting honesty respect love behavior

The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that live.
Mme. de Stael Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: love emotions feelings knowledgement forgiveness friendships relationships marriage forgiving

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich Words for All Occasions
Categories: love communication listener listening speech words talk trust relationships

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
Leo Buscaglia Born for Love
Categories: love learning failure experience actions relationships marriage friendships agape

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
Categories: love relationships friendships priorities balance marriage parenting time planning

An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant.
Thomas Moore The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
Categories: nature beauty spirituality soul heart imagination value love fulfillment purpose meaning

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot Words for All Occasions
Categories: friendship relationships trust communication kindness agape love caring giving sharing

Some tension is necessary for the soul
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Handbook for the Soul
Categories: personal growth change soul love healing forgiveness service serve self-nurture

Happiness and love are just a choice away.
Leo Buscaglia Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: happiness joy love relationships friendships marriage choice responsibility attitude emotions feelings

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: perception self-image self-knowledge security understanding love friendship relationships intentions behavior

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
John Sutherland Bonnell The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy sadness depression despair sharing giving love relationships friendship duty

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.
Dale Dauten 'Charming the brain may allow changes' by Dale Dauten (Arizona Republic 1/7/99)
Categories: love joy attitude gratitude change growth self-improvement resolutions relationships success excellence

It is foolish to postpone enjoyment of your ordinary life until you are more successful, more secure, or more loved than you are today.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: joy happiness perfectionism routine present life success security love foolishness wisdom

Work and love--these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Theodor Reik The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work meaning purpose fulfillment love relationships friendship marriage joy mental health wellness

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
Categories: relationships friendships humanity racism bigotry love appearances self brotherhood equality discrimination agape

How should one live?
Live
Welcoming
to all.
Mechthild von Magdeburg "Live Welcoming to All" by Sue Monk Kidd, which appeared in the September/October 1997 Weavings.
Categories: attention mindfulness moment now present attentive love giving sharing hospitality charity volunteerism

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
Thomas Moore, PhD, in the essay "Embracing the Everyday" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: honesty trust truth integrity authenticity sharing friendship relationships love courage risk

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: virtue usefulness talents serving sharing volunteerism relationships love character service giving back

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
Leo Buscaglia Born for Love
Categories: mistakes errors failure sins of omission neglect indifference taking for granted relationships marriage love divorce

To fear love is to fear life.
Bertrand Russell Love and Relationships: Inspirations for Meditation and Spiritual Growth by Eileen Campbell
Categories: love life emotions feelings commitment marriage committed relationships fear afraid friendships sharing trust

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: laughter love friendship respect children beauty appreciation volunteer play enthusiasm life living success

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
John 13:34 Holy Bible
Categories: love christianity discipleship choices responsibility interdependence interdependency neighbors actions consequences community society win/win vision

Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into conciousness the shadow side of our lives. Coversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.
Elizabeth O'Connor Our Many Selves: A Handbook for Self-Discovery
Categories: sin evil badness love friendships relationships marriage parenting self-awareness self-knowledge growth courage strength denial

For me, all I can do is spit in the eye of my fears by living each day with as much passion and commitment as possible to what truly counts, such as love and justice. To give into the fear and hopelessness would be to declare defeat, something I am not ready to do while there is still the will to struggle.
Lawrence Paradis 'Beyond Fear and Pity' by Lawrence Paradis in the December 1998/January 1999 the issue of Mainstream magazine
Categories: courage strength fear living priorities love persevere determination overcoming challenges obstacles difficulty problems disability

Where there is no antagonist, you cannot quarrel.
Japanese proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: fight argue friendship relationship marriage parenting self-control listening understanding agape love acceptance accepting tolerance

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, and then only, are you grown old.
General Douglas MacArthur Words for All Occasions
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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again--this is the brave and happy life.
J.E. Buchrose The Book of Positive Quotations
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To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done--this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker Light from Many Lamps
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From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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...you get appreciation by giving it.
Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner Dealing with People You Can't Stand:
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This is the precious present, regardless of what yesterday was like, regardless of what tomorrow may bring. When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go. When the heart of your heart opens, you can take deep pleasure in the company of the people around you--family, friends, acquaintances, or strangers--including those whose characters are less than perfect, just as your character is less than perfect. When you are open to the beauty, mystery, and grandeur of ordinary existence, you "get it" that it always has been beautiful, mysterious, and grand and always will be.
This is the precious present.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
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The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
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Look at people; recognize them, accept them as they are, without wanting to change them.
Helen Beginton Words for All Occasions
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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda Bradley Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World
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Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
King Solomon Proverbs 11:17 (The Living Bible)
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You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life.
MacRina Wiederkehr A Tree Full of Angels
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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 perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13 Holy Bible
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Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). Negative thoughts (judgement, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
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