Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.
This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.
My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Teenage girls have so much sway over culture, yet people sneer at the things that women and girls love, and are contemptuous of the creators of that content, particularly if they are women.
The life that goes out in love to all life is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and in power.
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