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Welcome to these Imposed Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom
At the Core of Our Suffering
are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not believe that God has
imposed suffering upon anyone
to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
- Ernest Holmes
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person experiences life as
something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this self-imposed prison,
and through compassion,
to find the reality of Oneness.
- Albert Einstein
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
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 Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, 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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
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
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
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
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
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
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
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
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
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
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
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
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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