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I love and treasure individuals as I meet them;
I loathe and despise the groups
they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
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As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
- George Carlin
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
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 me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
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 means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
Love Without Limits.
- 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
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
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
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
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
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
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