Unity, liberty, charity
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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

Love
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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

Acto con amor
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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

Undying love
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Noi siamo oggetti da parte di Dio di un amore intramontabile. Sappiamo: ha sempre gli occhi aperti su di noi, anche quando sembra ci sia notte. E’ papà; più ancora è madre. Non vuol farci del male; vuol farci solo del bene, a tutti.

We are the objects of undying love on the part of God. We know: he has always his eyes open on us, even when it seems to be dark. He is our father; even more he is our mother. He does not want to hurt us, He wants only to do good to us, to all of us.

Pope Johan Paul I – born Albino Luciani, 1978 Holy Father (1912-1978), in his Angelus on September 10th, 1978

Carità
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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)

Love
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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

Priorities
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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

Love
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Mahatma Gandhi – Indian politician (1896-1948), from “Ahimsa or the way of Non-violence” (posthumously 1958 in “All men are brothers”), Quotations book 2014

Voir Dieu
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Qui veut voir Dieu vivant, face à face, doit le chercher, non dans le firmament désert de sa pensée, mais dans l’amour des hommes.

Romain Rolland – écrivain et pacifiste français, prix Nobel de littérature 1915 (1866-1944), de “Jean-Christophe: L’Adolescent” (1904), Brochure de citation 2014

Learning from love
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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

Love
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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

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

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

L’amour
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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)

Made for love
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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

Copyright by Desmond Tutu, used with permission of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, all rights reserved.

Love
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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

De l’amour
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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

Power is dispensable
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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

Responsibility
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Love means that life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility; responsibility toward our family, toward our nation, toward our civilization, and now, by the pressures of history, toward the universe of mankind, which includes our enemies.

attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr – German-Born American theologian (1892-1971)

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

Proverb

Motivation
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Do what you love.

attributed to Ted Koppel – born Edward James Koppel, American journalist (b. 1940)

Faults
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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

Without Love
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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)

Salvation
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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)

Love
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Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

Love
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Love never fails.

The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:8 (NIV)