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If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pray for the angry,
but express your prayers and intentions silently.
Saying openly to an angry person,
"I pray for you to receive inner-peace."
is almost certain to provoke an even angrier reaction.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
If people are good only because they
fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- 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 is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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 me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
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
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
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 a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
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