Love Notes©

Sharing and sowing Seeds of Love to grow on ~

‘Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails …’

~ 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

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‘Life is a song. Love is the music.’

~ Anonymous

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‘The human heart feels things that the eye cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.’

~ Robert Vallet

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‘Not all those who wander are lost’

~ J.R.R. Tolkien

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“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

~ Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

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“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

~ Mark Twain

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“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

~ J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

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“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”

~ C.S. Lewis

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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

~ Dr. Suess

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‘Thought is free’

~ William Shakespeare

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‘Make each day your masterpiece.’

~ John Wooden

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‘Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.’

~ Guy Finley

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‘When tears come, I breathe deeply and rest. I know I am swimming in a hallowed stream where many have gone before. I am not alone, crazy, not having a nervous breakdown…My heart is at work. My soul is awake.’

~ Mary Margaret Funk from Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life

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‘God enters by a private door into every individual.’

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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‘One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.’

~ Andre Gide

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‘Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in the process of turning into them.’

~ Philip Larkin

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‘And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.’

~ Anais Nin

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‘No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.’

~ Agnes DeMille

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‘If you require love, try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the only way you can give it is to fill yourself up with it, until you become a magnet.’

~ Charles Haanel

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‘A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.’

~ Oscar Wilde

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‘God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say them.’

~ Author Unknown

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‘It is the unexpected that teaches us the most.’

~ Chinese proverb

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‘Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.’

~ Melody Beattie

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‘Joy is untouched by circumstance.’

~ Unknown

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‘When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.’

~ African Proverb

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`Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.’

~ Dale Carnegie

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‘If you want to be different, try being yourself.’

~ Anon

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‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.’

~ Galatians 5:22-23

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”Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

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I continue to learn…that the best way for me to keep on growing, is to surround myself with people who challenge me beyond what I have learned this far…

~ julia

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‘The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.’

~ Kahlil Gibran

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’Every man’s way is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.’

~ Proverbs 21:2

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”Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

~ Philip K. Dick

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‘You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.’

~ Ken Keyes, Jr.

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‘When we know Who, we can stop asking why.’

~ Chuck Swindoll

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“Sometimes the slightest shift in the way you look at things, a seemingly insignificant change in perspective can alter your life forever.”

~ Author Unknown

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’The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.’

~ Pema Chodron

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“Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.”

~ Torkom Saraydarian

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’Every part of God’s creation is very good and very special because it results from the loving design of Almighty God…As persons created in the divine image we are very special. The dignity and worth of every human being flows from the divine decree, not human decision. Our essential dignity does not come from government fiat, social usefulness, or self-actualisation. It comes from the Creator of the galaxies who selected human beings alone out of the almost infinite multitudes of the created order to bear the divine image. No matter how poor and defenceless, old and weak, crippled and deformed, young and helpless, human beings enjoy a God-given worth and dignity that sets them apart from the rest of creation.’

~ Ron Sider, from Christianity Today

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”When we can’t piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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‘It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.’

~ Margaret Bonnano

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’How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.’

~ George Washington Carver

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‘Having children is hereditary. Chances are that if your parents didn’t have any children, you won’t either.’

~ Unknown

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“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”

~ Woody Allen

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“When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly”

~ Patrick Overton

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“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.”

~ Rosalie de Castro

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‘The tongue is our ambassador.’

~ Fortune Cookie Wisdom

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‘There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.’

~ French Proverb

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‘In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.’

~ Blaise Pascal

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‘Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.’

~ Confucius

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‘”When people stop believing in God, they do not believe in nothing. They believe in anything.”

~ G.K. Chesterton

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‘We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.’

~ Mary Antin

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’The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.’

~ Sir Francis Bacon

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