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Welcome to these Elevating Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Elevating and Love.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Related topics: Values Motivational Action
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau
In many ways, it is easier to be a good giver than a good receiver.
The giver chooses the gift and the timing.
More important, societal and religious traditions
tend to elevate the status of giver and lower the status of receiver.
When the Bible (Acts 20:32-35) speaks of it being
more blessed to give than to receive,
I believe that a better translation might be
"take" rather than "receive," as the context
of that passage is "coveting."
Certainly there is nothing blessed about coveting,
stealing, begging, or demanding,
however the skill of graciously receiving a freely offered gift
is another matter entirely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
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.
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
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
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
Love conquers all.
- Virgil
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
- John Lennon
Love cures people - both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it.
- Karl A. Menninger
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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)
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
Love begins with a smile,
grows with a kiss,
and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous
You don't love someone for their looks,
or their clothes, or for their fancy car,
but because they sing a song only you can hear.
- Anonymous
Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
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)
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It's so easy to fall in love
but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
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