Archive for category: Love

L’âge ne vous protège pas de l’amour. Mais l’amour vous protège de l’âge.

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Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

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Experience teaches us that love does not mean to look into each other’s eyes, but to look together into the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – French aviator and writer (1900-1994), from “Wind, Sand, and Stars” (“Terre des Hommes, 1939)

L’expérience nous montre qu’aimer ce n’est point nous regarder l’un l’autre mais regarder ensemble dans la même direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – écrivain et aviateur français (1900-1944), de “Terre des Hommes” (1939)

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity.

Unitatem in necessariis, in non necessariis libertatem, in omnibus caritatem.

Marco Antonio de Dominis – born Marko Gospodnetić, Dalmatian Catholic theologian, philosopher and scientist, 1602-1616 Archbishop of Split, (1560-1624), from “De Republica Ecclesiastica”, part 1, book 4, chapter 8 (1617), Quotations book 2019

The Lord does not look so much to the grandeur of our works as to the love with which they are done.

Teresa of Àvila – spanish mystic and Catholic nun (1515-1582), from “Interior Castle” (1588), Quotations book 2017

El Señor no mira tanto la grandeza de las obras como el amor con que se hacen.

Teresa de Ávila – mística y doctor de la Iglesia española (1515-1582), a patir de “Moradas del Castillo Interior” (1588), Libro de citas 2017

Dove regna la carità regna la felicità.

Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco – sacerdote cattolici e pedagogo italiano (1815-1888), de “Memorie biografiche di San Giovanni Bosco” (Benda 6, 1907)

Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more;
love more, and all good things will be yours.

Swedish proverb – Quotations book 2014

There is no power on earth like unconditional love. If you offer that to your child you’re 90 percent of the way home. There may be days when you don’t feel like it – it’s not uncritical love; that’s a different animal – but to know you can always come back, that is huge in life. That takes you a long, long way. And I would say that every parent out there that can extend that to their child at an early age, it’s going to make for a better human being.

Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), at the Allen & Company Conference 2010 in Sun Valley, Idaho, Quotations book 2014

L’amour est composé aux trois quarts de curiosité.

á Giacomo Girolamo Casanova – écrivain et aventurier vénitien (1725-1798), de “Histoire de ma vie” (1794-1798)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King jr. – American civil rights activist and pastor, Nobel Peace Prize 1964 (1929-1968), Quotations book 2013

You need power only when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise, love is enough to get everything done.

attributed to Sir Charles S. „Charlie“ Chaplin – british actor (1889-1977), could not be verified by the Chaplin Association

It is not important how big your house is but your heart.

Proverb

Love has the patience to endure the fault we cannot cure.

J. Jelinek – Chosen by Sir John Marks Templeton, British value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008), Quotations book 2002

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must he 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 it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Reinhold Niebuhr – German-American theologian (1892-1971)