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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

* “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

* "Justice from Love, and Love from Justice" -- Bishop Carlos Belo

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. -- Pearl S. Buck

Hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.
-- Buddha

* "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice" ~ John Burroughs

* Without justice and love, peace will always be the great illusion. -- Archbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara

 

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

* "The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” -- Johnny Depp

* If you would be loved, love and be lovable. -- Benjamin Franklin

* “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

* Love is metaphysical gravity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

The entire law is summed up in a single command, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
-- Galatians 5:14

* 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 "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

* Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love." ~ Mohandas 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

* With our love, we could save the world.” -- George Harrison “Love one another" (His last words) -- 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

* 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

* "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. "At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. -- 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 All you need is love, love, love is all you need. -- John Lennon & Paul McCartney

* 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

* Love is my religion. -- Ziggy 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)

* "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

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

* 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

* "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." -- Carl Sagan

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 Love is the truth that sets us free... -- Robert Alan Silverstein

* "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 is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 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

 

  Love Day - May 1