Love
- After the verb "to love" – "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.--Bertha von Suttner
- All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.--Charles Schulz (via Lucy Van Pelt)
- Always love your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.--Oscar Wilde
- At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.--Michael Dorris
- At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. -- Fyodor Doestoyevsky (Brothers Karamazov)
- Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.--Albert Schweitzer
- The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.--Thomas Merton
- Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.--George F. McDougall
- The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.--Author Unknown
- The book of Jonah remains in the Bible to this day to counter human attempts to say that the love of God is bounded by the limits of any human being’s love or by any religion’s inability to be inclusive.--John Shelby Spong (Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World)
- But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.-- John Perry Barlow
- Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.--Harold Herbert
- The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word "love." It is the divine vitality that produces and restores life. To each and every one of us it gives the power of working miracles, if we will.--Lydia M. Child
- Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.--Mother Teresa
- Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.--Mary Cholmondeley
- Every experience of accepting love strengthens the muscles of the personality.--Jean Illsley Clarke & Connie Dawson (Growing Up Again)
- Expect the people you love to be better. It helps them to become better. But don't get upset when they fail. It helps them keep trying.--Anonymous
- Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.--Gerald Jampolsky
- The first duty of love is to listen.--Paul Tillich
- For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.--Ivan Panin
- For in the end,
We will conserve only what we love,
We will love only what we understand,
We will understand only what we are taught.--Baba Dioum
- For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.--Judy Garland
- Forgiveness is the final form of love.--Reinhold Niebuhr
- From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.--Sappho (fragment)
- Give of your hands to serve and your hearts to love.--Mother Teresa
- God is known by many different names... but identified by one consistent feeling: love, love for humanity, love for our children. Love does eventually conquer hate...--Rudolph Giuliani
- God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.--Henry W. Beecher
- Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.--Robert Schuller
- The greatest thing each of us offers the world is ourselves, not a whirlwind of activity. People all around us are starving for love. People need our company, our presence and our comfort.--Susan K. Rowland (Make Room for God: Clearing Out the Clutter)
- The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.--O. A. Battista
- Grief, like love, is seldom diminished by sharing it, but it is ultimately necessary to do so.--Ralph Womer
- Hatred can be overcome only by love.--Mahatma Gandhi
- He drew a circle that shut me out.
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle that took him in.--Edwin Markham
- How can we communicate love? I think three things are involved. We must reach out to a person, make contact. We must listen with the heart, be sensitive to the other's needs. We must respond in a language that the person can understand. Many of us do all the talking. We must learn to listen and to keep on listening.--Princess Pale Moon
- I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.--Zelda Fitzgerald
- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.--Mother Teresa
- I have no regrets. I will never regret loving someone because the feeling of love for five minutes is greater than an eternity of hurt.--Kurt Langner
- I only want to love once, but I want to love everybody for the rest of my life.--Lauren Ford
- If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.--Mother Teresa
- If grass can grow through cement, love can find you anywhere.--Cher
- If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.--Christopher Morley
- If we found out that we all had five minutes to live, every phone line in the world would be tied up with people calling other people to stumble about how much they love them. So don't wait until we only have five minutes to live--do it now.--Trisha Wright
- If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.--Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.--Barbara de Angelis
- If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.--Ann Landers
- If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.--Bob Hope
- If you judge people, you have no time to love them.--Mother Teresa
- 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
- If you love something, set it free.
If it returns, it's yours forever.
If it doesn't it was never your to begin with.--Anonymous
- If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.--Mother Teresa
- If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself. If you wish to diminish fear in the world, diminish your own. These are the gifts that you can give.--Gary Zukav
- In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.--Mary Renault
- In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.--John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
- In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.--Thomas Merton
- In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.--Mary Oliver (Upstream)
- Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.--David Icke
- Is there anyone we wouldn't love if we only knew their story?--Mary Lou Kownacki
- It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.--Agatha Christie
- It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.--Mother Teresa
- It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.--Thomas Mann
- It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.--Richard Braunstein
- ... it is the greatest mistake, both in life and in literature, to suppose that love is the difficult, the complicated thing. It is not love, it is friendship, which is the great problem of civilized society. The other is quite elemental beside it.--Mary Adams (Confessions of a Wife)
- It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.--Emmet Fox
- Jesus took the command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and pushed the definition of who is our neighbor, out, out, and still further out, until it reached to the ends of the earth and included all of humanity-all of God's children.--Alvin Alexsi Currier
- Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us. Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing--sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.--Henri Nouwen
- Joy is the happiness of love--love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
- Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.--Oscar Wilde
- Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.--Thomas Szasz
- Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of they affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.--John Dryden
- Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love--Mother Teresa
- Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!--Henri F. Amiel
- Looking back over a lifetime, you see love was the answer to everything.--Ray Bradbury
- Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.--William Shakespeare
- Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.--Dalai Lama
- 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
- Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.--John Cotton Jr.
- Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.--Karl Menninger
- Love does not consist of gazing at one another, but in looking outward in the same direction.--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like brick; re-made all the time, made new.--Ursala K. LeGuin
- Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.--Franklin P. Jones
- Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.--Thomas a Kempis
- Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.--Eleanor Farjeon
- Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.--Katharine Hepburn
- Love has the innate ability to look past the human and see the godly.--Colette Burnham
- Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.--Barbara De Angelis
- Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.--Mother Teresa
- Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.--Kurt Langner
- Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.--Leo Buscaglia
- Love is like a beautiful flower whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight.--Helen Keller
- Love is not limited by convenience; it is the inconvenient times that make you realize how much you are truly loved.--Officer Michael A. Mejia
- Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.--Aberjhani (Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry)
- Love is the bridge between you and everything.--Rumi
- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.--Iris Murdoch
- Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end.--Madame de Stael
- Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies.--Djalal ad-Din Rumi
- Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.--Gary Zukav
- Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.--Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)
- Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.--Rumi
- Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.--Marianne Williamson
- Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 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
- Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes
- Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. Love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. Love creates; envy destroys. Love builds up; envy pulls down. Love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
- Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies.--I Corinthians 13: 4-8a (The Message Bible)
- Love that is hoarded moulds at last
Until we know some day
The only thing we ever have
Is what we give away.--Louis Ginsberg
- Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.--Gabriela Mistral
- Love within a family is unconditional, and this kind of environment is necessary not only for children but also for adults who need a space of healing from wounds inflicted in the marketplace.--Joan Mueller (Living a Spirituality of Action: A Woman's Perspective)
- A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--Charles Dickens
- Love's a choice. Make wise decisions.--Shellie R. Warren
- Make sure that you let them know that you love them while you still have many years to go.--Mason Ovian
- The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.--bell hooks
- More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.--Albert Einstein
- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.--Morrie Schwartz
- Music is the expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.--Stephen Gaskin
- Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.--Cornel West
- Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)
- No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.--La Rochefoucauld
- No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.-Nelson Mandela
- Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.--Zelda Fitzgerald
- The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about other people is to love them.--Dorothy Day
- On this Earth, though far and near, without love, there’s only fear.--Pearl S. Buck
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.--Henry Miller
- Our expressions of spirituality are as diverse as we are. When our intentions and actions are guided by spirituality – our belief in our interconnectedness and love – our everyday experiences can be spiritual practices.--Brene Brown (Rising Strong: the Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution)
- Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.--Greg Boyd
- The power of love and caring can change the world.--James Autry
- A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has aroused him in vain.--Jessamyn West
- She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.--Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
- Some say love is blind while others say there is love at first sight. For those who say love is blind, I say open your eyes and take in the endless possibilities of beauty and compassion. For those who believe in love at first sight, take time to close your eyes, look into your heart, and find out whose face it is that you see.--John Shows
- Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.--Brené Brown (The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are)
- Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.--Mother Teresa
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.--Mingon McLaughlin
- Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted.--Henry Wadsworth
- There is a remedy for most all that ails us which is as simple as "love thy neighbor… " as uncomplicated as "do unto others… "--Lord Belhaven
- There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem.--Emmet Fox
- There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.--Anna Sewell
- There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.--Karen Goldman
- There's only two things that money can't buy, and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes.--Guy Clark
- Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.--Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
- Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.--John Wesley
- 'Tis what I love determines how I love.--George Eliot
- To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.--David Viscott
- To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.--Madame Swetchine
- To love is not a part of things
or a part of life.
To love is the whole of things
and the whole of life.
In my heart is my love for you
and in my love for you
life whole is.--Unknown (Essay On Love)
- To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.--G. K. Chesterton
- To truly love is to work for a just equity of power between nations, races, and genders, and in our day-to-day relationships and transactions. It is to oppose all patterns of power over one another.--John Philip Newell (Rebirthing of God)
- Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.--Joshua Loth Liebman
- True love's the gift which God hath given,
To man alone beneath the heaven.
The silver link, the silver tie, which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
in body and in soul can find.--Sir Walter Scott
- The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.--Henry Home
- The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.--G. K. Chesterton
- We accept the love we think we deserve.--Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
- We are all called differently, different places, different actions, different people to love.--Emily Goldberg
- 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 (A Return to Love)
- We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.--Mother Teresa
- We cannot love God unless we love each other. We know him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet, and life is a banquet too - even with a crust - where there is companionship. We have all known loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community.--Dorothy Day
- We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.--Paul Tillich
- We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.--Agnes Repplier
- We have to learn to live in both the world-as-it-is and the world-as-it-should-be. One is power; the other is love. Power and love are conjugal partners. Power without love is brutality, but love without power is soon sentimentality. We have to put the two together in this world.--Richard Rohr
- We love because it is the only true adventure.--Nikki Giovanni
- What is important is not great deeds, but to do everyday tasks with great love for God and neighbor.--Alfred McBride (Christ Our Compass: Making Moral Choices)
- What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.--Pearl Bailey
- When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.--D. H. Lawrence
- When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.--John Ruskin
- When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.--Kahlil Gibran
- When the people we love are stolen from us, the only way to keep them is to never stop loving them. People die, buildings burn, but eternal love lasts forever.-- David J. Schow & John Shirley III (The Crow [movie])
- When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is "What was the quality of our love?"--Richard Bach
- Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.--Carl Gustav Jung
- Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.--Martha Beck (Expecting Adam)
- With a strong affirmation of our goodness and a gentle understanding of our weakness, God is loving us--you and me--this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.--Brennan Manning (Ruthless Trust)
- You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.--Jonathan Carroll (Outside the Dog Museum)
- You only need Power, when you want to do something Harmful, Otherwise, Love is Enough to get everything done...--Charlie Chaplin
- You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.--Henry Drummond
- You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger… Let a man overcome anger by love.--Buddha
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