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 E. Gladstone
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 Jung
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
-- HH the Dalai Lama
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
-- Elie Wiesel
We need not think alike to love alike.
-- Francis David
Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
-- Elizabeth Barret Browning
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
-- Emma Goldman
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
-- Barbara De Angelis
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-- Allan K. Chalmers
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
-- Henry David Thoreau
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
-- Hermann Hesse
We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
-- Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
-- Oscar Hammerstein, II
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert Heinlein
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
-- Rumi
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. -- William Sloane Coffin