“Love sacrifices itself for others.” ——Gary Amirault
“Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?” ——Confucius
“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.” ——Khalil Gibran
“The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.” ——Khalil Gibran
“Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.” ——Louis Ginsberg
“Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.” ——Ursula K. Le Guin
“One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well –but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?” ——Shirley Hazzard
“Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God’s beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.” ——Bengali Hymn
“Love is the only bow of life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.” ——Robert Green Ingersoll
“Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.” ——Madame Neckar
“Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love’s prerogatives — to give, and give, and give.” ——John Oxenham
“A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.” ——Japanese Proverb
“Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.” ——Japanese Proverb
“The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred…” ——Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.” ——Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.” ——David Steindl-Rast
“We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.” ——Thomas Szasz
“Love is the only gold.” ——Lord Alfred Tennyson
“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.” ——Lord Alfred Tennyson
“It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found — not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.” ——St. Teresa of Avila
“The greatest love is found in the deepest sin.” ——Gary Amirault
“Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.” ——Author Unknown
“Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.” ——Author Unknown
“No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.” ——Woodrow T. Wilson
“Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.” ——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company — a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.” ——Orison Swett Marden
“…if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.” ——1 John 4:12, The Bible
“Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” ——Psalm 37:4, The Bible
“Out of the three gifts of faith, hope and love, the greatest of all is love.” ——1 Corinthians 13:13, The Bible
“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.” ——Khalil Gibran
“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” ——Jacques Benigne Bossuet
“Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.” ——Justine Milton
“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.” ——Author Unknown
“Love is metaphysical gravity.” ——R. Buckminster Fuller
“We need not think alike to love alike.” ——Francis David
“Time is Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love
Time is not.” ——Henry Van Dyke
“The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.” ——Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.” ——Harry Emerson Fosdick
“My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.'” ——Jim Fox
“Without love one will not see God for God is love.” ——Gary Amirault
“It is possible to speak of loving the whole world and not befriending one’s neighbor.” ——Gary Amirault
“Love is our soul purpose.” ——Author Unknown
“Indifference, not hate, is the strongest enemy of love.” ——Author Unknown
“While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love’s sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.” ——E. Stanley Jones, True Love
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbors.’ But I say to you, ‘Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you that you may be children of your Father in heaven…Therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.'” ——Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:38-44, 48, The Bible
“So I bow in prayer before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth gets its true name. I ask the Father in his great glory to give you the power to be strong inwardly through his Spirit. I pray that Christ will live in your hearts by faith and that your life will be strong in love and be built on love. And I pray that you and all God’s holy people will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ’s love — how wide and how long and how high and how deep that love is. Christ’s love is greater than anyone can ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with the fullness of God. With God’s power working in us, God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine.” ——Ephesians 3:14-20, The Bible (NCV)
“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” ——Colossians 3:14, The Bible
“All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that ‘God is love.’ But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, He was not love. . . . And that, by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christianity and all other religions: that in Christianity God is not a static thing—not even a person—but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance. . . . And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.” ——C. S. Lewis
“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.” ——Joanna Macy
“Love translates as love.” ——Author Unknown
“The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power.” ——C. S. Lewis
“To say I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.” ——Thomas à Kempis
“Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don’t have to be afraid of them.” ——Kathy Kelly, Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison