Thoughts about love?

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My Declaration of Self-Esteem - "I Am Me"

by Virginia Satir

In all the world there is no-one else exactly like me.

Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me; my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself - I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes, because I own all of me.

I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me and other aspects that I do not know, but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do - I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me - I am me and I am okay.

Inspirational Sayings, Stories, Poems, Affirmations, Prayers : Pearls Of Wisdom

 

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We all want to feel loved. We think about it, hope for it, fantasize about it, go to great lengths to achieve it, and feel that our lives are incomplete without it. The lack of unconditional love is the cause of most of our anger and confusion. It is no exaggeration to say that our emotional need for unconditional love is just as great as our physical need for air and food.

Makes an interesting Google search

 

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Everybody benefits from inspiration now and again. Over the years, TLF Founder Harold Becker has written and shared a variety of brief expressions focused on the many qualities of love. We provide a collection of some of his thoughts on love, peace, life, awareness and encouragement, that may lift your spirits or speak to you in a special way. Enjoy!

Inspirations - The Love Foundation

 

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Interview with Marci Shimoff about "Love for no reason" -

Marci Shimoff: Following Her Joy Through Love | Following Your Joy

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“I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. And I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love; I’m talking about a strong, demanding love. For I have seen too much hate. I’ve seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I’ve seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate, myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities, and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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Peace & Inspiration: Great Quotes - The Peace Alliance

 

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"As human beings we naturally live our lives wanting belonging, connection, a home in this world. We yearn for warmth, for possibility, for the more abundant life that love seems to promise. We sense there is a quality of real love that is possible beyond the narrow straits we have been told to navigate, a possibility that's not idealized or merely abstract. We have an intuition that we can connect much more deeply to ourselves and to one another." This wise observation comes from Sharon Satzberg, a world-renowned meditation teacher who is a regular columnist for On Being, a contributor to Huffington Post, and host of her own podcast calledThe Metta Hour. She is profiled in S&P's Living Spiritual Teachers Project.

Real Love | Book Reviews | Books | Spirituality & Practice

 

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"Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room."

~ Mark Hack

 

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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

~ George Bernard Shaw

Through God's Eyes quotes sources, s-z

 

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“Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.”

Gary Zukav

 

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"Be there. Be open. Be honest. Be kind. Be willing to listen, understand, accept, support, and forgive. This is what it means to love."

~ Lori Deschene

 

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[Bird123]

Yes, given enough time everyone will learn that the only Intelligent choice is Unconditional Love.

For those who hate, they are choosing and learning many hard lessons for themselves. Yes, it hurts to be around them, however I think it's important through Love and Kindness to point them in the right direction even though they might not listen. There will come a time when the Truth will become more important to them. Perhaps, that is the time when that light bulb goes off over their heads and they Understand.

You have all my Love and Kindness!!!

 

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You have all my Love and Kindness!!!

Right back at you!

 

[Frater Sisyphus]

What most people call love is not love, it's just selfish 'Like' and 'Attraction' - which is something that can be crushed any second.

There are many kinds of love, of which the most powerful and transcendent - I think (personally) is the most potently and beautifully expressed in many of the Hindu scriptures.

 

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“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

Robert Fulghum

 

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"Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look confidently at the world. We turn inward and begin to feed upon our own personalities, and little by little we destroy ourselves. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others."

~ Chief Dan George

 

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"I think love is the most misunderstood emotion in the universe. I don't think half the people know what real love is. And I don't think half the people on this planet have ever experienced it. If people experienced for one moment what real love is, we could never live the way we live with each other. We couldn't do to each other what we're doing. We couldn't ignore what we're ignoring. We couldn't allow it to be the way it is."

~ Neale Donald Walsch

 

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Love Quotes: Quotes about Love with images | Double Quotes

 

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The mind of love brings peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others. Mindful observation is the element which nourishes the tree of understanding, and compassion and love are the most beautiful flowers. When we realize the mind of love, we have to go to the one who has been the object of our mindful observation, so that our mind of love is not just an object of our imagination, but a source of energy which has a real effect in the world.

~ Thich Nhat Hahn

From "Meditation on love" down the bottom of this page -

more quotes, quotations and passages on love

Plus a few others I have yet 2 check-out ...

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