Returning Love Quotes

• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

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  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring   Confidence   Fear  

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• Perhaps if only once you did enjoy The thousandth part of all the happiness A heart beloved enjoys, returning love, Repentant, you would surely sighing say, “All time is truly lost and gone Which is not spent in serving love.”

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  Torquato Tasso

  Heart   Gone   Beloved  

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• The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return.

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  Eden Ahbez

  Love   Life   Romantic  

  "Song: 'Nature Boy'". 1948.

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• Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Stars   Hate   Loss  

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• We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

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  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence   Fear   Famous Motivational  

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• True gratitude is the ability to humbly see, feel, and even receive love. Gratitude is a form of returning love to God. Recognize His hand, tell Him so, express your love to Him.

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  Gene R. Cook

  Gratitude   Hands   Form  

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

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  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence   Fear   Insecure  

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• True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

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  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love   Positive   Marriage  

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• Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

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  George MacDonald

  Prayer   Children   Love You  

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.9509, e-artnow

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• The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

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  Anthony de Mello

  Love   Hate   Achievement  

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.59, Image

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• The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

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  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love   Life   Heartbreak  

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 13), 1949.

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings   Hate   Light  

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

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  Khalil Gibran

  Crush   Spiritual   Sweet  

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