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What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Spend a moment every day thinking of someone to love.

Richard Carlson

Ultimately love is everything.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

Love is how you stay alive even after you are gone.

Morrie Schwartz

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

In our life there is a single color as on an artist's palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love . . . We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there.

Love is not what we become but who we already are.

Ultimately love is self-approval.

Love is above all the gift of oneself.

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are . . . your simple presence can make others happy.

It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline . . . too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with. . . something about yourself your career your spouse.

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

George Washington Carver

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is "What would love do now?"

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead perfect your love.

Master Sengstan

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

Ken Keyes

The essence of love is kindness.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Nine times out of ten when you extend your arms to someone they will step in because basically they need precisely what you need.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Bible

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe an unconditional state that characterizes human nature a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.

Emily Hilburn Sell

When we connect with ourselves in love we can connect with others and the planet in love.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

Gerald Jampolsky

Someday after we have mastered the winds the waves the tide and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.

Teilhard de Chardin

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the coldest February as in every other month in every other year the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us it is not true love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride.

He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

Laurence J. Peter

Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.

Shared laughter is love made audible.

A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .

Arthur Asa Berger

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad.

The child in you like all children loves to laugh to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives the better.

Laughter is a gift everyone should open.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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