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Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
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
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 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
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 me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
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
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
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 without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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