Archive for category: Love

Duty without Love creates annoyance.
Truth without Love creates addiction to criticism.
Education without Love creates contradiction.
Cleverness without Love turns cagey.
Responsibility without Love turns inconsiderate.
Justice without Love creates hardness.
Politeness without Love creates hypocrisy.
Order without Love creates pettiness.
Knowledge without Love turns obstinate.
Power without Love turns violent.
Honour without Love creates pride.
Possession without Love turns avaricious.
Believe without Love turns fanatic

attributed to Laozhi – chinese philosopher (ca 3rd-5th century BC)

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)

The key to the heart of people will never be our cleverness, but always our love.

attributed to Hermann von Bezzel – German Protestant theologian, 1891-1909 director of the deaconess institution Neuendettelsau (1861-1917), Quotations book 2016

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)

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

attributed to Jimi Hendrix – born James Marshall Hendrix, American guitarrist, composer and singer (1942-1970), Quotations book 2018

La prima felicità di un fanciullo è il sapere di essere amato.

Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco – presbitero cattolica e pedagogo italiano (1815-1888)

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

slogan of nursing – Quotations book 2020

Aimer un être, c’est accepter de vieillir avec lui.

Albert Camus – écrivain et philosophe français, prix Nobel de littérature en 1957 (1913-1960), de “Caligula”, Acte IV, Scène XIII (1945)

To love someone is to accept to grow old with them.

Albert Camus – Frech philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1957 (1913-1960), from “Caligula”, Act IV, Scene XIII (1945)

In order to be a jazz musician, you have to listen and listen and listen to a lot of jazz. And that’s an act of love. You don’t think, I’m listening to study it. You just listen because you love it. And you love it, and love it … and gradually, you learn.

Woody Allen – American director and actor (b. 1935), from an interview with Stig Björkman, published in “Woody Allen on Woody Allen” (1993), Quotations book 2016

Любить — видеть человека таким, каким его задумал Бог.

Мари́на Ива́новна Цвета́ева – Русский Люрикер (1892-1941), в журнале (3-го октябpя 1918 г.), Цитата буклет 2020

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva – Russian poet (1892-1941), from a diary notice (October 3rd, 1918), Quotations book 2020

We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice.
Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – American civil rights activist and pastor, Nobel Peace Prize 1964 (1929-1968), from his speech “The Birth of a New Age” at the fiftieth-anniversary convention banquet of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity in Buffalo (August 11, 1956), published in “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956” (1997)

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein – German pysicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (1879-1955)

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

de France – Brochure de citation 2020

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

L’amour est la seule passion qui se paie d’une monnaie qu’elle se fabrique elle-même.

Stendahl –  né Henri Beyle, écrivain français (1783-1842), de “De l´amour” (1822), Brochure de citation 2013

I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.

Desmond Tutu – South African anglican clergyman, 1986-96 Archbishop of the archdiocese Cape Town, Nobel Peace Prize 1984 (b. 1931), Quotations book 2013

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