"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
Hate
is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love.
This is a law eternal.
-- Buddha
Love
-- giving and receiving from the heart -- involves
... peace ...
-- Richard Carlson
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
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"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
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"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
When
the power
of love overcomes the love of power the world will
know peace.
-- Jimi Hendrix
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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
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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
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"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.
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When
all the people in hte 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
hte cunning will not deceive the simple.
-- Motsi (463-401 BC)
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"This
is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good,
falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
-- Peace
Pilgrim
"The
way of peace is the way of love. Love is the
greatest power on earth. It conquers all things."
-- 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
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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 (b. 1914)
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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."
Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers,
Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot
it.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
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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)
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"After
the verb "to love," the verb, "to help" is the
most beautiful verb in the world."
-- Bertha
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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
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"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
can do no great things--only small things
with great love."
-- Mother
Teresa
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Accustom
yourself continually to make many acts of love, for
they enkindle and melt the soul.
-- Saint Teresta of Avila (1515-1582)
