Love
294 quotes: 33 by Keith Craft, 261 from other voices.
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- Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for the individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
- The desire to be beloved is ever restless and unsatisfied; but the love that flows out upon others is a perpetual well-spring from on high.
- The dreariest poverty is that of the heart. Banish this, and we shall all be rich.
- The first happiness of a child is to know that he is loved.
- The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
- The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.
- The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.
- The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
- The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
- The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to include them in your circle of love.
- The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
- The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
- The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of.
- The heart is wiser than the intellect.
- The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
- The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
- The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.
- The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
- The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
- The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.
- The measure of love is to love without measuring.Augustine of HippoCommonly attributed
- The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
- The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
- The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
- The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
- The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.Morrie SchwartzCommonly attributed
- The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
- The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
- The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
- The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- The reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of our love for Him is to love Him without measure.
- The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
- The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
- The wealth of man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.
- There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
- There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.