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Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
by Ursula K. Le Guin

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Related topics: Romantic Love

To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The creative adult is the child who has survived.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

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 Jung

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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