Love

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

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 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

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"...

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...

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 est composé aux trois quarts de curiosité. á Giacomo Girolamo Casanova - écrivain et aventurier vénitien (1725-1798), de "Histoire de ma vie" (1794-1798)

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 (1931-2021), Quotations book 2013...

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

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

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

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)

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, value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008), Quotations book 2002

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...

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...

Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein - German pysicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (1879-1955)

Love never fails. The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:8 (NIV)