April 1, 2001
The love of liberty is the love of others;
the love of power is the love of ourselves.
We cannot force love....William Hazlitt.
April 2, 2001
If you don't like someone, the way he holds his spoon
will make you furious; if you do like him, he can turn his
plate over into your lap and you won't mind....Irving Becker.
April 3, 2001
Peace will come when the power of love
overcomes the love of power....Jimi Hendrix.
April 4, 2001
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither,
the heart's blessing can heal, and that love
can overcome all odds....Ralph Waldo Emerson :-)
April 5, 2001
Love is taking the standards that you have for
someone, or even your own feelings, and having
them totally blown away....J. Edward Bucher.
April 6, 2001
Any man's finest hour is when he has worked
his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted
on the battlefield....Vince Lombardi.
April 7, 2001
Lust is the forest fire that destroys
everything in its path, love is a torch that
burns intensely and bonds two hearts....Unknown.
April 8, 2001
Our heart is the voice of the soul. Listen
carefully and in its beating you will hear
the fluttering of angel wings....Unknown.
April 9, 2001
Never speak of yourself to others; make them
talk about themselves instead: therein lies the
whole art of pleasing....J.E. De Goncourt.
April 10, 2001
You must be careful how you walk, and where
you go, for there are those following you who
will set their feet where yours are set....Robert E. Lee.
April 11, 2001
Never tell the people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise
you with their integrity....George S. Patton.
April 12, 2001
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation.
Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself,
if you wish to get others....David Seabury.
April 13, 2001
People need loving the most when they
deserve it the least....John Harrigan.
April 16, 2001
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves....Ovid.
April 17, 2001
If I tell you I love you can I keep you forever?....Casper.
April 18, 2001
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps
the most fatal to true happiness....Bertrand Russell.
April 19, 2001
We all love best not those who offend us least,
nor those who have done most for us, but those who
make it most easy for us to forgive them....Samuel Butler.
April 21, 2001
Each of us is responsible for creating an environment of warmth
and consideration for those we love. I have always tried to define
a good day not in terms of one in which all things were made right
and comfortable for me but rather, as a day in which I have been
able to make another's day more loving and special for them.
We must treat each other with dignity. Not because we merit it
but because we grow best in thoughtfulness....Leo Buscaglia.
April 22, 2001
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well
as those who refuse to love us....Dr. Karl Menninger.
April 23, 2001
"True love" isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it
is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially -- even, or perhaps
especially, when you don't feel like it....William R. Mattox, Jr.
April 24, 2001
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:
our love to others, and others' love to us....Thomas Trahern.
April 25, 2001
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and
ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love....Thich Nhat Hanh.
April 26, 2001
To the child, Love is both real and pretense: a necessity sometimes,
a role at other times: instinctive, yet learned behavior....Unknown.
April 27, 2001
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength,
and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much,
and what is done in love is done well....Vincent Van Gogh.
April 28, 2001
If you are truly in love with a man's
daughter. You'll love her till eternity
ends, and after....Jerusalmi Streete.
April 29, 2001
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the
strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise,
and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason,
and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy....Marguerite De Valois.
April 30, 2001
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender,
thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy
than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word
will give more pleasure than a present....Sir John Lubbock.
May 1, 2001
Love is not losing freedom, it is sharing freedom with another....Unknown.
May 2, 2001
The litmus test of discipleship is in Jesus’ own words, "By this
all will know you are my disciples, if you love one another"....John 13:35.
May 3, 2001
Forever will little opportunities to love daily drop into our hands to
abundantly satisfy the question, "Lord, what will you have me do?"....Unknown.
May 4, 2001
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Against such things there is no law. Notice the word *fruit* is
singular, yet it lists nine....Galatians 5:22. So there is only
one fruit of the Spirit. That fruit is love. The others....
Joy - love smiling
Peace - love resting
Patience - love waiting
Kindness - love showing itself sensitive to others' feelings
Goodness - love making allowances
Faithfulness - love proving constant
Gentleness - love yielding
Self-control - love triumphing over selfish inclinations....Unknown.
May 5, 2001
Right now I am holding you in my heart, so while
it is not the physical touch, I am holding you in that
place that I hold only you....Bryan Roberts, my very best friend :-)
May 6, 2001
Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual
attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high
regard for the value of each other's person....Nathaniel Branden.
May 7, 2001
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have
the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated,
is stronger than evil triumphant....Martin Luther King, Jr.
May 8, 2001
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all
know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it,
not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the
issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes
become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember
that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated....Leo Buscaglia.
May 9, 2001
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....Rumi.
May 10, 2001
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of
another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth,
beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of
love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be
found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of
divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life....Sir Hugh Walpole.
May 11, 2001
You may wish to be loving -- you may even try with all
your might -- but your love will never be pure unless you are
free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is
effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally
a sign that we are repressing our resentments....John Gray.
May 12, 2001
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time:
effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end....Germaine De Stael.
May 14, 2001
But love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick,
never old, never dead from itself never turning....Sir Walter Raleigh.
May 15, 2001
Never let a problem to be solved become more
important than a person to be loved....Barbara Johnson.
May 16, 2001
When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream,
assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself
with labour you are in truth loving life, and to love life through
labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret....Kahlil Gibran.
May 17, 2001
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve
problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage
and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without
courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy....Dean Koontz.
May 18, 2001
Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two
people to produce together conditions under which each can be
and spontaneously express, his real self; to produce together
an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in which each can
flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone....Unknown.
May 19, 2001
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point,
then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what
you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards
you can be an entirely different person, filled with love
and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted
and positive in every thought and deed....Eileen Caddy.
May 20, 2001
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant
gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love.
And when the time comes -- seize it, don't miss it....Max Lucado.
May 21, 2001
Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you
can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into
your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach
out and give it away. Give it back to the person who brought it
alive in you. Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit.
Give it to the world around you in any way you can....Unknown.
May 22, 2001
Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may
fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's
frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still....Leo Buscaglia.
May 23, 2001
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful,
prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever
a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love....Thomas ã Kempis.
May 24, 2001
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price....St. Jerome.
May 25, 2001
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those
that you care for to be what they choose for themselves,
without any insistence that they satisfy you....Wayne Dyer.
May 26, 2001
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; those things you
must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your
job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway); and put
what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your
life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant....Unknown.
May 27, 2001
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering
is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love
in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in
tough situations; and temperance is love in training....D.L. Moody.
May 29, 2001
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never
have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love
is the basis of all love....Thomas Traherne.
May 30, 2001
You know you're in love when you can see your
unborn children in her eyes....Bryan Adams.
May 31, 2001
The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in
what it keeps, but in what it gives....Father Andrew.
June 1, 2001
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and
Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its
radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of
poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart,
builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth. It was the
first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is
the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy,
and makes right royal kings of common clay....Robert Green Ingersoll.
June 2, 2001
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called
love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will
discover that for you the world is transformed....Jiddu Krishnamurti.
June 3, 2001
Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands with
open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's
prerogative -- to give and give and give....John Oxenham.
June 4, 2001
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a
sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness
of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness
to life that nothing else can bring....Oscar Wilde.
June 5, 2001
Love one another, but make no bond of love; Let it rather be a
moving sea between the shores of your soul. Fill each other’s cup,
but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread,
but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and
be joyous, but let each one of you be alone....Kahlil Gibran.
June 6, 2001
We can choose to make our love for each other
what our lives are really about....Werner Erhard.
June 7, 2001
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world;
a prescription often given, too rarely taken....Dr. Karl Menninger.
June 8, 2001
Love is the master key that opens the
gates of happiness....Oliver Wendell Holmes.
June 9, 2001
Love shows in so many ways, those who love will always see it,
It speaks in so many voices, those who love will always hear it,
Love is...for so many reasons, those who love will never ask why....Unknown.
June 10, 2001
A heart truly in love never loses hope but always
believes in the promise of love, no matter how long
the time and how far the distance....Unknown.
June 11, 2001
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he
has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do....Kahlil Gibran.
June 12, 2001
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be
reached by the caravan of thinking....Kahlil Gibran.
June 13, 2001
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must
first be who you really are, then do what you need to do,
in order to have what you want....Margaret Young.
June 14, 2001
Advice is what we ask for when we already
know the answer but wish we didn't....Erica Jong.
June 15, 2001
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny
matters compared to what lies within us....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
June 16, 2001
Five years from now you will be the same person as
you are now except for two things, the books you read
and the people you meet....Charlie "Tremendous" Jones.
June 18, 2001
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds
more seriously than what they see....Julius Caesar.
July 15, 2001
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no
other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to
accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to,
everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or
despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty,
painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength,
if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him
who has the vision to recognize it as such....Henry Miller.
July 16, 2001
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing.
There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people
to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare
to pick up the pieces when it's all over....Octavia Butler.
July 17, 2001
If you love someone more than anything, then distance
only matters to the mind, not to the heart....Unknown.
July 18, 2001
We really are capable of loving many people at the same time
without diluting what we have to give. In fact, the more loving
experiences we have, the more we have to bring with us when we
focus on a deep, intimate relationship. The quality of love is
not strained when it is shared; rather it is intensified and most
assuredly improves with the experience....Leo Buscaglia.
July 19, 2001
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you
are and what gives meaning to your life....Paula P. Brownlee.
July 20, 2001
Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while
his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay
takes away something from the value of his benefaction....Samuel Johnson.
July 21, 2001
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact
of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination
and the energy to get started....Norman Cousins.
July 22, 2001
There are things you'd love to hear that you would never hear from
the person whom you would like to hear them from, but don't be so deaf
as not to hear it from the one who says it from his heart....Unknown.
July 23, 2001
Every individual has a place to fill in this
world and is important in some respect whether
he chooses to be or not....Nathaniel Hawthorne.
July 24, 2001
One of the surest expressions of love is the sharing of thoughts
and feelings. Loving others is to want to understand how they think
and how they feel about themselves and the world they live in.
When words fail, it's comforting to realize how many other vital and
eloquent ways we have of communicating with each other....Leo Buscaglia.
July 25, 2001
When we give of what we have, we are ready to
receive what we really need....Douglas M. Lawson.
July 26, 2001
The difference between saying, 'I love you' to a friend
or a lover is that if you said 'I love you' to a friend,
the friend would know exactly what you meant....Unknown.
July 27, 2001
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless....Mother Teresa.
July 28, 2001
b>Angel I now know that God exists. I know this because God
sent me an angel that graces me everyday by simply just being
present. An angel, that the simplest gestures are more filling
than a life full of love. An angel, that even on the darkest
days, seems to be my light. An angel, that possesses beauty
in its pure form. An angel, so wonderful, words could never
describe. An angel, a sweet angel, that could only be you....Unknown.
July 29, 2001
Times of general calamity and confusion create
great minds. The purest ore is produced from the
hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is
elicited from the darkest storms....Charles Caleb Colton.
July 30, 2001
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible
deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is
no reparation, either in time or in eternity....Kierkegaard.
July 31, 2001
The trust and tolerance and thoughtfulness that characterize
friendship at its best can heal and save all intimate affiliations.
Being a good friend -- whether to yourself, your mother,
your child, or the person sharing your bed -- means first
of all, respecting the integrity of the individual....Uta West.
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