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Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
I say all that happens is wonderful.
- Anais Nin
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images,
just watching images passing by which I cannot live in,
make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
- Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because
we don't know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.
It dies of illness and wounds;
it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
- Anais Nin
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
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
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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.
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
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, 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
(Jesus on Love)
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 means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
- Corinthians 13:13
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 found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
I argue thee that love is life.
And life hath immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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