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Despitefully Quote of the Day

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Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44

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Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-44)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

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

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

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

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

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

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Return love for hate.
- Anonymous

Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

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

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie