Return To The Garden

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"We leave seeds behind when we leave our lifetime for good
- what are you leaving behind for others to remember?"
- Lori Freed
1

"You know what love is? Love is the truth.
I have said for decades I am the walking truth.
I realize now I am also saying I am the walking love. Everyone is. Even you. If you allow yourself to walk in your real Truth."
-Lori Freed

2

"Did you know You are Love? Did you forget?
I’m just stopping by to remind you."
- Lori Freed

3

“Fear is the absence of love. If you live from love - fear cannot lead your life.
Your heart cannot hold fear where there is love. It just can’t. Only the mind can.“
-Lori Freed

125

“I understood that love comprises all vocations, that love is everything, that it embraces all times and all places because it is eternal!”
– Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Little flower biography-Story of a Soul
1873-1897 - passed away at 24 years old

22

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
― Lao Tzu

5

"I am Impelled by love. I am rooted in it -
and I will grow it like a tree and its leaves;
like a flower and it’s petals. Should my leaves
and petals fall off into their season of mourning,
- I will grow them again when I rise again as the root of love."
-Lori Freed

4

"If not now, when? If not you...then who? Be a living miracle of love."

6

"I am love and I have been in existence ever since forever.
And I will be with you faithfully into wherever hereafter..."
-Lori Freed

21

"Love is a decision. Not an emotion.”
― Lao Tzu

8

"Your perception is your reality- what are you perceiving? Whatever it is -
it will be your feeling you carry around. Choose to perceive Love and feel it. You will be so much more at peace."
-Lori Freed

9

"Love does not exist to be the exception in our lives- it was created to be the rule."
- Lori Freed

10

“If you are judging someone you’re not loving that someone.”
-Lori Freed

24

"Confidence and love alone cast out fear."
- Ernest Holmes

11

"I have said for years that the most valuable asset
in life is not money, it’s time.
I stand corrected. The most valuable asset -
more that money and more than time is LOVE."
-Lori Freed

12
"Feed your heart with love. Not your mind.
Your mind always wants more. It is insatiable
- can never get enough to validate its identity.
Heart never needs validation, it always knows the truth."
-Lori Freed
16
‘To be Love is to be a true Lover.’
-Lori Freed
13
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know"
-Jimi Hendrix
14
“May we face our lives with grace in these times.”
-1995 Dannion Brinkley
15
"Tell me the story about how the sun loved
the moon so much,
He died every night to let her breathe".
17
"Let's make everyday be about love."
- Terry Prince
18

"The mysterious energy of Love is the active principle of unity. Everything loves, and
everything responds to love."
-Ernest Holmes

19

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde

20

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

23

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
— Sir Bell Hooks

26

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain

25

"Love will find a perfect way."
- Ernest Holmes

26

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
– John Green

27

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”
– Elaine Davis

28

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”
– Angelita Lim

29

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

30

“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.”
– Unknown

31

“I need you like a heart needs a beat.”
– Unknown

32

“When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.”
– Unknown

33

”I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

34

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher

35

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
– A. A. Milne

36

“A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.”
– Brendan Francis

37

”I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
– Pablo Neruda

38

”Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
– Oscar Wilde

39

“You make me want to be a better man.”
– Melvin Udall

40

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
– Sarah Dessen

41

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

42

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
– Anais Nin

43

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
– Euripides

44

“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
– Jane Austen

45

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
– James Baldwin

46

“In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.”
– Jack Kornfield

47

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
– Bette Davis

48

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
– C.S. Lewis

49

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
– Paulo Coelho

50

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
– Pablo Neruda

51

“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.”
– Ovid

52

“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”
– Theodore Roethke

53

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss

54

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
– Pablo Neruda

55

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
– Nicholas Sparks

56

“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
– Ben Hecht

57

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”
– Noah from The Notebook

58

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

59

“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”
– Valerie Lombardo

60

”My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
– André Breton

61

”A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

62

”Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”
– Elinor Glyn

63

”Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”
– 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

64

“Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.”
– James Thurber

65

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
– Sophocles

66

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
– William Arthur Ward

67

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
– Andre Gide

68

“This has been my life; I found it worth living.”
– Bertrand Russell

69

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

70

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
– Confucius

71

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
– Rumi

72

“Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.”
– Tom Freston

73

“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
– Vincent van Gogh

74

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald

75

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
– Henry David Thoreau

76

“Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.”
– Judy Collins

77

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha

78

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
– William Shakespeare

79

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
– Marilyn Monroe

80

“I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

81

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.”
– Natalie Cole

82

“I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings. ”
– Open-365

83

“The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.”
– Dalai Lama

84

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare

85

“You call it madness, but I call it love.”
– Don Byas

86

“We can only learn to love by loving.”
– Iris Murdoch

87

“A life lived in love will never be dull.”
– Leo Buscaglia

88

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
– Victor Hugo

89

“All you need is love.”
– Paul McCartney

90

“True love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach

91

“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.”
– Saint Ignatius

92

“Love is not a volunteer thing.”
– Samuel Richardson

93

“Love is friendship on fire.”
– Susan Sontag

94

“Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.”
– Tom Wolfe

95

“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones

96

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
– Elbert Hubbard

97

“Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.”
– Houssaye

98

“Trust your intuition and be guided by love.”
– Charles Eisenstein

99

“That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.”
– Joan Baez

100

“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
– Nikki Giovanni

101

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
– William W. Purkey

102

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

103

“Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.”
– Jeanne Moreau

104

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
– Washington Irving

105

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”
– Marge Piercy

106

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
– Barbara De Angelis

107

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

108

”I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

109

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
– Madame de Stael

110

“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”
– George Jean Nathan

111

“Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.”
– William Arthur Ward

112

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”
– Barbara De Angelis

113

“We need not think alike to love alike.”
– Francis David

114

“Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.”
– Moliere

115

“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.”
– Felix Adler

116

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

117

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.”
– Lao Tzu

118

“When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”
– Dalai Lama

119

“Love is sharing your popcorn.”
– Charles Schultz

120

“Love is being stupid together.”
– Paul Valery

121

“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?”
– Lily Tomlin

122

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein

123

“Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.”
– Lisa Hoffman

124

“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

125

“Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.”
– Dolly Parton

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