“Live Love, not War.” ——Author Unknown
“Loved people… love people
Hurt people… hurt people
Loved people must love Hurt people.” ——Author Unknown
“People were created to be loved
Things were created to be used
The reason why the world is in chaos
Is because things are being loved
And people are being used.” ——Author Unknown
“All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” ——Matthew 7:12, The Bible
“This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.” ——Mahabharata 5:1517, Brahmanism (Hinduism)
“No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.” ——Sunnah, Islam
“Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” ——Udana Varga 5:18, Buddhism
“What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.” ——Talmud, Shabbat 31:a, Judaism
“Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.” ——Analects 15:23, Confucianism
“Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.” ——T’ai Shag Kan Ying P’ien, Taoism
“That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself.” ——Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5, Zoroastrianism
“In so far as anyone is led to perform an act from the hope of reward, or the fear of punishment, in just so far does he/she fail to fulfill the law of love in his/her own soul.” ——I. D. Williamson
“The sword of the peaceful warrior is love.” ——Gary Amirault
“Many say ‘God is love, but…’ There are no ‘buts’ in God Who is love that never fails and for Whom nothing is impossible.” ——Gary Amirault, founder Tentmaker Ministries (1 John 4:8; 1 Cor. 13:8; Luke 1:37)
“Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.” ——Author Unknown
“Love fails, only when we fail to love.” ——J. Franklin
“Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn’d. The pay is certain, one way or another.” ——Walt Whitman
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.” ——Erica Jong
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.” ——C. S. Lewis
“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.” ——David Grayson
“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” ——Jessica, age 8
“If we discovered that we had only 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
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.” ——George Eliot
“Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” ——Dr. Karl Menninger
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” ——David Viscott
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” ——Author Unknown
“He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God. God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we do the least of all.” ——Henry Drummond
“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.” ——Author Unknown
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.” ——C. S. Lewis
“We can only learn to love by loving.” ——Iris Murdoch
“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep.” ——Elbert Hubbard
“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” ——Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.” ——Tom Wilson
“I have often heard, ‘I love God but just don’t like His people.’ This may sound glib, but as John explained, this is a basic deception as we do not really love God unless we also love His people. The Scriptures also go to great lengths to explain that love is not to be based on whether people are lovable or not.” ——Rick Joyner
“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” ——G. K. Chesterton
“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.” ——John Harrigan
“Faults are thick where love is thin.” ——English Proverb
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.” ——Author Unknown
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” ——Author Unknown
“Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?” ——Oscar Hammerstein, Cinderella
“We reach our best, and we do our best, we are at our best in a love atmosphere.” ——E. W. Kenyon
“Love doesn’t give a person what they deserve, but what they need.” ——Author Unknown
“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.” ——Mme de Staël
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.” ——Mother Teresa
“Love cannot exist without an object to love.” ——Author Unknown
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.” ——Henry Ward Beecher
“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” ——Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
“The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.” ——Keith Miller
“The first duty of love – is to listen.” ——Paul Tillich
“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” ——Lao Tzu
“Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes… [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.” ——J. C. Ryle
“It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.” ——Mother Teresa
“A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.” ——John of the Cross
“Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.” ——William Law
“If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.” ——Fr. Richard P. McBrien
“If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.” ——John G. Lake
“Where there is great love there are always miracles.” ——Willa Cather
“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
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.” ——Helen Keller
“There is no love which does not become help.” ——Paul Tillich
“You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.” ——Amy Carmichael
“Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.” ——C. S. Lewis
“To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.” ——G. W. Von Leibnitz
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” ——Peter Ustinov
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” ——Robert Quillen
“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.” ——Sir Hugh Walpole
“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.” ——Anna Louise Strong
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” ——James Baldwin
“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” ——Pearl S. Buck
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” ——Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Love is friendship set on fire.” ——Author Unknown
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.” ——Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.” ——Og Mandino
“We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can 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
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” ——G. K. Chesterton
“Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.” ——Jeanne Moreau
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” ——Victor Hugo
“Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.” ——Rollo May
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.” ——Karen Sunde
“The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity-love. And the story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.” ——Helen Hayes
“I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it’s not gluttony, it’s not cancer, it’s not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.” ——Rich Mullins
“To say that God loves me is a familiar notion indeed, but to pursue, know and experience His love is a rare preoccupation.” ——Dana Candler
“We are all born for love…it is the principle existence and it’s only end.” ——Disraeli
“Pain reminds us we’re alive – Love reminds us why.” ——Author Unknown
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” ——Erich Fromm
“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” ——Michael Leunig
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” ——Rainer Maria Rilke
“If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.” ——Emmet Fox
“When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world – no matter how imperfect – becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.” ——Kierkegaard
“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.” ——J. Krishnamurti
“Love all of God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love.” ——Fyodor Dostoyevski
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” ——Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom.” ——E. W. Kenyon