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"There
is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In
a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as
breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn
it he must perish."
-- Alfred Adler
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“If
you have only one smile in you, give it to the people
you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the
street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total
strangers.”
-- Maya
Angelou
Love
-- giving and receiving from the heart -- involves ... peace
...
-- Richard Carlson
*
In
our imaginations we believe that love is apart from
us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are
ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you
find yourself.
-- Deepak
Chopra
*
The
world is too dangerous for anything but truth and
too small for anything but love.
-- William
Sloane Coffin
*
Most
of what we take as being important is not material,
whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things
we can't really see or touch. They're not material,
but they're vitally important to us.
--
Judy
Collins
*
An
act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of
the pain of the world, increases the courage and love
and hope of all.
-- Dorothy
Day
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"The
only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure
love are dogs and infants.”
-- Johnny
Depp
We
must restore hope to young people, help the old, be
open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the
poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
-- Pope
Francis
We
have observed that, in society and the world in which
we live, selfishness has increased more than love
for others, and that men of good will must work, each
with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that
love for others increases until it is equal and possibly
exceeds love for oneself. -- Pope
Francis
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“In
the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.”
-- Morgan
Freeman
Can
one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing,
a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is,
there is no such thing as "love." "Love" is an abstraction,
perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has
ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the
act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies
caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the
person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing
to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process,
self-renewing and self increasing.
-- Erich Fromm
The
entire law is summed up in a single command, "Love your
neighbor as yourself."
-- Galatians 5:14
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The
person who discovered the law of love was a far greater
scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only
our explorations have not gone far enough and so it
is not possible for everyone to see all its workings."
-- Mahatma
Gandhi
“Power
is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent than
the one derived from the fear of punishment.”
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Whenever
you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with
love."
~ Mohandas
Gandhi
Forgiveness
is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving
love.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
"Whether
humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not
know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just
as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or
not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far
greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only
our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not
possible for everyone to see all its workings."
-- Mahatma
Gandhi
"Love
grows by service."
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We
look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace
the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings
of peace. William Gladstone (1809-1898)
When
the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there
will be true peace.
-- Sri Chin Moi Gosh
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“Give
me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give
me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help
me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and
reach you with, heart and soul”
-- George
Harrison
“Give
me love, give
me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me
free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy
load, trying to touch and reach you with heart and soul”
--
George Harrison
“With
our love, we could save the world."
--
George Harrison
*
When
the power
of love overcomes the love of power the world will
know peace.
-- Jimi
Hendrix
When
the heart speaks, love listens.
-- Robert M. Hensel
One
is more desirable when loved, not feared.
-- Robert M. Hensel
No scale
to balance, what's in my heart.
No numbers to measure, nor even to chart.
This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds.
For only through time, can it's value be found.
-- Robert M. Hensel
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"To
me, love, spirituality and life are all the same thing.
To me they're all about honoring the circle, and they're
just different ways of defining the same understanding.
Our society as a whole, because we have placed our
love for money above our love for life, has devalued
the sacred and devalued love."
-- Julia
Butterfly Hill
*
every
seed of true love will give - today, tomorrow or the
day after tomorrow - the fruit of love.
-- Father
Bruno Hussar
If
we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there
would be no Hitlers…Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest
curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices
built from love or from fear.
--Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
All
you need is love, love, love is all you need.
-- John Lennon & Paul McCartney
*
"Love
is the only force capable of turning an enemy into a
friend."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Darkness
cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
*
We've
got this gift of love, but love is like a precious
plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in
the cupboard or just think it's going to get on
by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've
got to really look after it and nurture it.
-- John
Lennon
*
To
be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without
expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes
courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces
or leave ourselves open to hurt. --
Madonna
*
“Conquer
the devils with a little thing called love!”
-- Bob
Marley
I
think Americans should have a policy of love. That
should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
-- Ziggy
Marley
When
all the people in the world love one another, then the strong
will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the
few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will
not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive
the simple.
-- Motsi (463-401 BC)
"To
increase your own healing ability, set your intention
for change with love. Take a long, slow, deep breath
and hold it while focusing on love. Go deeper into
love and see healing as happening now. See, feel and
experience the power of love plus intention as a powerful
change agent in your life."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
“To
increase your own healing ability, set your intention
for change with love."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them.”
- Trevor Noah
*
"This
is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood
with truth, and hatred with love." -- Peace
Pilgrim
*
"Be
a sweet melody in the great orchestration, instead
of a discordant note. The medicine this sick world
needs is love. Hatred must be replaced by love, and
fear by faith that love will prevail." -- Peace
Pilgrim
*
"The
way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest
power on earth. It conquers all things." -- Peace
Pilgrim
*
"This
is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood
with truth, and hatred with love." -- Peace
Pilgrim
Love
is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace
in each one of us.
-- Salle Merrill Redfield
"We
are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we
can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and
good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity
and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love
and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little
better than we found it."
~ Robert
Reich
Love
is not a doctrine. Peace is not an international agreement.
Love and Peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.
-- Mary Caroline Richards
Give
away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it
away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you
will have set others on the path of love and peace.
-- John Robbins
*
The
basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through
almost all the great religions of the world. "Love
thy neighbor as thyself."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
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The
basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through
almost all the great religions of the world. "Love
thy neighbor as thyself."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
Love
conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any
kind of injustice in the end.
-- Mark
Ruffalo
*
"For
small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable
only through love." -- Carl
Sagan
“I
know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in
the present moment with the people you love. It’s just that
simple.” - Jane Seymour
The
gift of peace begins with hearts filled with love.
-- Benjamin Shield
The
better you feel about yourself, the fewer limits you will
place on your ability to love.
-- Judith Sills (b. 1948)
*
Love
is the way we show peace,
Love sets us free.
Love is the bond that joins us
to our community.
Love is the answer
that we've been searching for.
It lives inside all of us,
just open up the door,
And Love to find Peace...
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
"This
is how it works: you peer inside yourself, you take the
things you like and try to love the things you don't. And
then you take that love you make and stick it into someone
else's heart pumping someone else's blood.”
-- Regina Spektor
*
"After the verb "to love," the verb, "to help" is the
most beautiful verb in the world."
-- Bertha
Von Suttner
To love
deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
-- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
*
We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing
world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of
boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. --
Brother
Wayne Teasdale
"Every
one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it,
we may not even like it. But whether we know it or
not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience
is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate
discovery. We have been given the gift of life in
this perplexing world to become who we ultimately
are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion,
and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal
journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only
we could see." -- Brother
Wayne Teasdale
Love
alone can unite living beings so as to complete and
fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is
deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our
ability to love developing until it embraces the totality
of men and the earth.
-- Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
Love
is the affinity which links and draws together the
elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent
of universal synthesis.
-- Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
*
"It is not how much you do, but how much love you
put in the doing." -- Mother
Teresa
*
"Love
cannot remain by itself-it has no meaning, Love has
to be put into action and that action is service...
All works of love are works of peace."
-- Mother
Teresa
*
We
don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace
- just get together, love one another, bring that
peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each
other in the home. And we will be able to overcome
all the evil that is in the world.
-- Mother
Teresa
*
"It is not how much you do, but how much love you
put in the doing."
-- Mother
Teresa
*
"We
can do no great things--only small things with great
love."
-- Mother
Teresa
*
Let us
always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the
beginning of love and once we begin to love each other naturally
we want to do something. -- Mother
Teresa
*
"None
of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all
do small things with great love, and together we can do
something wonderful."
-- Mother
Teresa
Accustom
yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they
enkindle and melt the soul.
-- Saint Teresta of Avila (1515-1582)
*
Love
is an act of endless forgiveness.
-- Peter
Ustinov
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The
spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices
and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love
is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
To be consciously aware of it, to experience love
in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning
does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
-- Marianne
Williamson
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The
spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices
and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love
is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
-- Marianne
Williamson
