Love
294 quotes: 33 by Keith Craft, 261 from other voices.
Other voices on Love
- There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
- There is no wealth but life--life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration.
- There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
- Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
- To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
- To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
- To be loved but not known is superficial.
- To have faith is to create; to have hope is to call down blessing; to have love is to work miracles.
- To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
- To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
- To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
- To love is to will the good of the other.Thomas AquinasSourced
- To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive — to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.
- To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
- We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.
- We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
- We can only learn to love by loving.
- We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
- We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
- We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
- What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.Augustine of HippoSourced
- What is done in love is done well.
- What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
- What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
- What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.
- When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
- When God measures men in the next world, he will not put the tape about their head, he will put it about their heart.
- When you feel like you can’t explain your faith, go love someone — you just did.
- Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
- Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.
- With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.
- Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with but one wing.
- Work is love made visible.
- Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright, Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed: And love is fire.Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSourced
- You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
- You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.
- You couldn't love anything as much as I loved investments and not get fairly good at it.Warren BuffettCommonly attributed