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Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
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
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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All you need is love.
- John Lennon
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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